> They had to install MCAS because the plane was unstable in high AoA mode, i.e. during takeoff.
Forgive me if I'm missing something, but isn't MCAS disabled while the flaps are extended, which is the case during takeoff and landing?
Forgive me if I'm missing something, but isn't MCAS disabled while the flaps are extended, which is the case during takeoff and landing?
In the doomed ET302 flight they retracted flaps 62 seconds after liftoff at only about 1200ft above the ground. MCAS kicked in 5 seconds later. Had autopilot been engaged it'd also had saved them from MCAS trim down commands.