Reply to post: Repetitive uncommanded aircraft nose down conditions?

Ethiopia sits on 737 Max report but says pilots followed Boeing drills

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Repetitive uncommanded aircraft nose down conditions?

repetitive uncommanded aircraft nose down conditions

That phrase being pseudo technical waffle for the computer is overriding the pilot. The solution being to put the pilot back in control of the aircraft and use audio-visual-tactile signals from the computer to the pilot when the plane moves out of its safe operating envelope. I suspect that the current model was chosen so as to put minimally trained pilots on the flight-deck. The downside being such as the Ethiopian crash when the computer gets confused.

If the jet is under manual control .. and the angle-of-attack is increasing, MCAS automatically adds nose-down trim in 10-second bursts.

Then by any logical criteria: the jet is still under computer control!

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