Originally Posted by
JPcont
Yes, a complicated diagnostics can be made to detect the disaster preconditions, but... . Far more straight forward would be to add actuator somewhere between stick and elevator to generate the right stick force (system that could be deactivated in a moment) if the problem were really the stick forces. Of course, the situation might be more complicated that announced publicly.
JPcont, agree with you.
It is hard to believe one of the roles of MCAS was "linearize" the instantaeous stick force with a coarse one-size-fits-all multiple shot action of a powerful but slow moving control.
Most of us have suggested some sort of stick nudger in the past months would have been more appropriate.
There might be more to it than announced, be it anomalous aircraft behaviour, lack of proper elevator authority, or just plain lack of engineering resources...