Originally Posted by
Bergerie1
spronrad,
I think you will find that D P Davies required the stick nudger on the B707-320s registered in the UK (page 262, Handling the Big Jets). He also required a stick nudger on the 747s registered in the UK - it worked a treat.
Peter Lemme
I always wondered why Boeing did not fit one to the 737MAX.
In Satcom Guru: Flawed Assumptions Pave a Path to Disaster
https://www.satcom.guru/2019/10/flaw...-disaster.html
Peter Lemme says:
In Stall identification (augmentation) is an action - it is doing something to the airplane to push the
nose down. Stick pushers and stick nudgers are commonly used for stall identification. A stick
nudger would have performed nicely in place of MCAS, but that would have required redesign of
the feel system.
I wonder how much it would have cost in terms of: delay, engineering, per-plane hardware -- and how
that compares to the costs of some of the high-tech solutions being proposed (genuine question).