Originally Posted by
George Glass
Gergen,
I beg to differ. MCAS is only there to ensure the control column force required to increase pitch does not decrease at high angles of attack.
It is a certification requirement. The aircraft will fly perfectly happily without it.
Disconnect and fly the aircraft.
That seems to be the problem - you can't disconnect MCAS without defeating the trim motors and there now appears (from the ET report) to be a problem in retrimming manually with a lot of back-stick. The other way would be to run down a stage of flap, which should stop MCAS interfering but it's hard to see a procedure which called for that getting approval.