Murphy's correction - Thanks.
Minor correction, after a couple of false starts the autopilot was engaged for more than 30 seconds, just long enough to provide a false sense of "not that bad"?
Then it all hit the fan on short order with AP disconnect followed by MCAS.
I had the AP time on as 3 seconds. Corrected. Indeed, the real 30 seconds it would give time for a feeling of having overcome the problem - until the 9 seconds of trim. But looking back again, it might be that feeling of success, coupled with the fact STS runs the wheels (albeit briefly) anyway, that made him miss the sheer length of the run time. Hard to imagine missing that clunking, but the Stick Shake is quite loud, and as we've discussed, very distracting.
Let's face it. Than run time of 9 seconds, the lack of sustained ANU via the electric trim and the power so high are the main indicators of his state of mind. It's a terrible shame that he'd not got more height as I've a feeling he was starting to go down the right logic route. But only just starting, and coping with too much of a handful to really focus.
Yes, AVIATE comes first, and it's really shouting loud that the stresses were drowning what skill he had.