Originally Posted by
Goldenrivett
Yes. See
737 MAX - MCAS
"The MCAS design at the time of these accidents would trim the
Stabilizer down for up to 9.26 seconds (2.5 deg nose down) then pause for 5 seconds and repeat if the conditions (high AoA, flaps up and autopilot disengaged) continued to be met. If the pilots used electric pitch trim, it would only pause MCAS for 5s; to deactivate it you have to switch off the STAB TRIM CUTOUT switches."
So is it fair to say, if the MCAS activates on erroneous data, and you put flap out, it would stop the MCAS system activating?
If this is the case, this would have been a handy piece of information for the flight crew as they fought the system.