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Old 5th Apr 2019, 14:45
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Originally Posted by positiverate20
With the Captain's stick-shaker activated etc. would this possibly cause any complication to his trim commands being tripped out so soon each time? Is there another hidden 'safety' system that limits the pilot trimming up when stick-shaker is activated? Or is it simply just a case of the motor not being able to operate due to the increased forces at the given airspeed (when considering the blips later on)?
Would the trim motor not be able to move the stab, we would still see the trim command from the pilot.

The same when trim cutout switches were off, we don't see any change in stab position but we still see MCAS AND command
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