Originally Posted by
Smythe
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It already does. AoA is never a direct reading from the vane, it passes through many levels of algorithms depending on circumstances and conditions.
Re your quote from my comment... I thought that is what I said, sorry if it was not clear. The AoA signal is routed to the FCC's; thereafter it is processed. For reasons that are not clear, MCAS was intended to remain active when AoA was unreliable. Part of the problem is that left and right is separated and the the left hand does not know what the right is doing, so to speak. Disagree seems to be separate from the FCC's but I stand to be corrected.
The signal from the AoA has to have all kinds of mapping and algorithms to provide clean data. Vibration, noise, sudden turbulence, inertia are but some of the issues that must be processed out. However, the question is why substantial disagreement between sensors was not regarded as an important factor in disabling MCAS automatically?