Originally Posted by
Loose rivets
Recent posts about marked unwanted rotation really shouts a kind of instability, though for the most of the last months it seemed that MCAS 'merely' countered a legally unacceptable lightening of stick forces while approaching the stall . . . it has been strongly implied that MCAS only stops the lightening of control loads?
Yes, there has been a VERY concerted effort to make it seem that way.
So the big question has to be, without MCAS, does the aircraft 'flop' nose-up in the late stages of stall entry?
We simply don't know. We need to know. I think that our best bet for getting this sort of information is if the EASA/ESA does indeed do their own 'bare airframe" testing.