Originally Posted by
jdawg
Lol. Ok.
So they jet can't fly without it but it was originally designed to? You can't be serious. This is all about same type approval. You don't migrate into hybrid FBW for any other reason.
The jet does not need MCAS except in the high kinetic realm.
if you are correct the MAX is done. And I'll celebrate with you.
I'm totally serious. The official reason for the existence of MCAS is to keep the the stick force gradient linear (and remaining positive) in the corners of the envelope where the increased lift of the LEAP engine nacelles may cause . . . uh . . . problematic pitch-up tendencies. That's what they keep telling us.
Now, there are some who wonder whether MCAS is really an anti-stall system . . .