Quote:. . .The possibility of a pitch-up tendency during approach to stall was identified for the flaps-up configuration prior to the implementation of MCAS.
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Which is very different challenge to simply stopping the elevator load going light.
Another means of effecting the cure perhaps by mechanically operated surfaces on the cowling? Well, to lose that amount of aerodynamic lift could present another issue. Those cowling surfaces are clearly creating substantial lift - which if it wasn't causing a problem, would be a good thing. I wouldn't want to lose that amount of lift suddenly.
This is exactly what I was trying to get over in an earlier post. I felt passionately that recognition should quickly be actionable, but with switches where the four main parameters could be switched back in, in a diagnostic manner. Much like re-connecting suspect bus-bars. Main power to the Jackscrew. Thumb trim. Auto pilot. MCAS.
Don't you think the bare-airframe testing that JATR recommended is essential and must largely determine the process of "fixing" the MAX? Who's going to want to fly the aircraft while there are unanswered stability questions?