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Old 21st Apr 2019, 15:04
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Originally Posted by infrequentflyer789
Either the link doesn't know what it's talking about or MCAS is even more broken than we think. There is no way I can see that ET302 could be meet a trigger condition of "very light weights", yet MCAS kicked in.
That is because MCAS kicked in because of incorrect AOA information. AFAIK there is no mechanism that disables MCAS if the aircraft isn't light & aft CG, so MCAS is "armed" whenever the flaps are up and the AP is off, and will rely on one AOA to get up and running.
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