Originally Posted by
DieselOx
Why do you think that? I hear a lot of people speculating that's the case, but no one has has definitively proven that one way or the other, directly from any data so far publicly available.
Boeing's statement is basically MCAS is an augmentation to maintain proper stick force, but as far as I remember, reading everything here and everywhere else, they very carefully never say where they start from.
Someone fly the plane w/o MCAS and report back. Then I'll believe it.
The non-linearity issue was brought up by FCEng84 way back when the whole thing started in one of the now-closed threads. It is the stick force reversal and instability that are speculations, and came later.
That poster was usually a very reliable and well-informed source. Unfortunately he hasn't posted for a very long time (probably the price for being too well-informed).