Originally Posted by
tdracer
To a man, they all agreed that if the stab tirm started doing something you didn't understand or like, the very first thing they'd do is turn it off and trim it manually. Hence the reason Boeing didn't treat MCAS as a flight critical system. However these were all older, high time experienced pilots
That being said, they also all agreed that no sim training for MCAS (or any of the other MAX differences) was a huge miss...
I suppose no one here will disagree with the above.
The unknown is and -remains -, when an how do you notice that the stab trim is doing something that you don't understand ?
In the real aiplane, with a continuous stickshaker, STS spinning the wheels and while running NNC's, how long does it take to notice the stab trim is acting up ?
One, two, ten, twenty seconds ?
The other unknown is, after the above number of seconds, is the out-of-trim recoverable with the manual wheels ? Or, at what speed and out-of-trim degree does the airplane become manually un-trimmable ?
Does someone really know, or do people just "believe", "suppose", "imagine" ?
Yeah, I know, "they shouldn't have..", "the trick is..".
But in the real world of real airplanes ?