Originally Posted by
Lost in Saigon
In November 2018, after Lion Air, some (or all) operators, changed the checklist list and removed the word “continuous”.
As a programmer, I really like this checklist a lot more. Besides scrapping the misleading word "continuous", it also tells pilots to control pitch with electric trim as an explicit step prior to using the CUTOUT switches, rather than having it be an apparently conditional substep of disengaging the autopilot if it is engaged.
As a tangent to that, it seems to me that it is difficult to establish a definition of "runaway stabilizer" that includes erroneous MCAS but doesn't include normal STS. Words like "continuous" apply to neither, nor do phrases like "cannot be stopped by pilot electric trim". I'm not at all happy to have Potter Stewart writing emergency checklists; "I know it when I see it" seems not enough for something this critical.