Originally Posted by
fizz57
Rather poor choice of example... In fact the sole reason for MCAS is to provide pilot-friendly handling characteristics,
And an unbelievably inappropriate choice of words by you. MCAS turned out to be anything but "pilot-friendly" when it went rogue on 3 occasions. The results speak for themselves. Nothing friendly about that, at all.
The fact is, MCAS was an ill-considered and very badly bodged attempt to fix another much more serious problem, purely for financial reasons, and the un-intended consequences had horrific results. If it was anything other than a totally unsafe and unsatisfactory system, why would the aircraft be banned by every administration, with no satisfactory fix or end to the desperately sorry saga in sight?
It was nothing whatsoever about being "pilot-friendly" - rather it was a cynical, cheapskate fix for a bigger problem, which was pushed through the regulatory system inappropriately, many would say, and it has killed far too many people.