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Australopithecus
These aircraft come with FPV, so if the speed, theta and gamma values are normal where's the mystery?
They certainly do come with a FPV. It’s also part of a long list of items that either fail or are unreliable in this scenario. Would you rely on it ? “Take as long as you like”.
The resulting stick shaker, UAS, windshear warning was very busy and distracting. I remain astonished that Boeing thought that adding an undocumented, intermittent, fast, stab trim input would not trip the crews into cognitive and manipulation overload.
I’m with Herr Brinker on this one - Your paragraph above acknowledges the cognitive overload (even without MCAS involvement). Your first attempt (post 3528) seemed to shrug it off as an almost trivial conclusion that the “alpha vane is proving bad information”. ‘A five second job’. So to speak. Ahem