Originally Posted by
megan
Since he MCAS was there to alleviate longitudinal handling qualities I would have though some sort of note would have been incorporated in some check list to advise what a crew may face with respect to handling qualities upon failure. Some helicopters (S-76 and Blackhawk) had longitudinal handling qualities that didn't comply with FAR's and had what was called a pitch bias actuator (PBA) in order to satisfy the FAR. Experience on the line showed the PBA wasn't necessary and was removed.
As far as I can tell there is no note or caution in the new procedure and in the simulator session I don't know if they just RTB with no MCAS and thus don't get into whatever regime it was designed to alleviate. It would seem that they should take the simulator into the relevant handling regime to show the non linear stick force to the crew when they do have a MCAS failure.