MAX’s Return Delayed by FAA Reevaluation of 737 Safety Procedures

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Originally Posted by megan

A couple of articles on the MAX saga.

https://aviationweek.com/commercial-...a1c3dd3c752677
https://aviationweek.com/commercial-aviation/2015-engineer-email-lack-mcas-redundancy-concern?utm_rid=CPEN1000000180327&utm_campaign=21954&utm_med ium=email&elq2=2d1b1f1a5f0e46a396a1c3dd3c752677

It's not an anti stall device, though that's what a lot of articles claim, it's there to enable the longitudinal handling characteristics (control column forces) to comply with the relevant FAR.

Please re-read my comments relating to that post.
MCAS was intended to replicate "stick force gradient" in the low speed stall flight envelope. I have stalled the real aircraft 737/747/757/767 MD-11etc (not simulators) and know the flight control force (column input) of many aircraft in both low and high speed situations.
Boeing didn't want MCAS to be an "anti-stall" aerodynamic function of the flight control system in the MAX for obvious reasons (new type cert).