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Old 6th Apr 2019, 23:47
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deltafox44
 
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Originally Posted by Just the fax maam
Seems to me that once the stab due to MCAS or runaway trim reaches a certain point it is unrecoverable without the old roller coaster manouvre few have been trained on or practiced. And possibly not just the Max.
Please let's all forget the roller coaster theory. At 340 kt releasing aft column pressure would mean negative g's. So if you want to have the time to make the numbers of turns of the trim wheel you need to get trimmed again, you have the choice between an inverted loop or 180° roll before releasing pressure

At the end of the flight they got -2g with still both pilots applying full aft force !
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