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Is it not a bit quaint that a 21st century airline manufacturer still believes that a hand-cranked pulley is the best final solution to a complex systems problem?
It is unfortunate, that following the lion-air crash, Boeing and the FAA detailed an AD, that to address a faulty MCAS system, required pilots to disable a perfectly working electric trim system. For a pilot that happened to be appropriately trimmed already, high and not too fast, trimming by the trim wheels is going to be OK. For pilots in more challenging situations, then this was going to be a problem. Both Boeing and the FAA would have been aware of this.
Once the faulty MCAS design had been recognized, it should have been fixed or at the very least, a mechanism introduced and documented, so that a pilot could disable the errant MCAS system without taking out other, important, working systems.