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Originally Posted by flipper35
Or get rid of MCAS entirely and add a type rating. The only reason for MCAS was to make the pilot feel like he was flying a regular 737.
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Well, it's also meant to compensate some poor flight characteristics due to slapping engines under an air frame that really wasn't designed for such engines.
the New LEAP engines are just much bigger, they don't fit under the 737
To fix that, they attached em in a rather funky forward way tha,t with all the power they have, results in undesirable behavior..
Basically when they get to full power on a take off the plane will do something that no other , well designed plane will do... pull itself into a high AOA and stall.
I don't think such a thing is at all acceptable in a civilian passenger airplane, meant to fly in IFR, day or night, IMC conditions, storms, wind shear, over seas, mountains, huge densly populated metropoles.. with hundreds of passengers on board...
It's like having a school bus redesigned to have a new engine driving the front wheels, and because of that, we put the steering wheels in the back..
but be cause that's just tricky , we introduced some power steering aid that fixes the poor handling characteristics.
Then that power steering aid, as it turns out is flawed..
Do you really want to just pull the steering aid out.. and just fix it with training?? I don't think so