Originally Posted by
rog747
OK thanks -
so what you are saying would also confirm that no pilots (putting aside MCAS as you say) were ever made aware of the adverse pitch up effect of the new MAX due to the location of the larger engines (which can now cause lift) at low weights/high power applications resulting in a (unrecoverable?) high AOA?
Rog - you don't have that
quite right. It's high AoA that results in different stick forces. In normal operations the pilot would not ever create an AoA that would allow him to explore the new stick forces. Boeing logic was that if the pilot inadvertently found himself in such a high AoA condition, then all would feel normal because MCAS would trigger. Boeing just failed to explore what would happen if the single input to MCAS failed causing it to repeatedly trigger when not wanted.