Interesting article. It seems Graves comes to the same mantra as many of us have: Fly The Jet.
I also got a very interesting E-mail from a friend with an article addressing this. It had a bit of info of which I was not aware:
"What they DON'T know is that the MCAS system can be enabled or disabled per plane, and remotely on a real time basis via uplink."
Trying to verify the source and some of the other claims. If I can, I'll post it.
Maybe Eagl knows if MCAS can be remotely enabled/disabled.
I guess most of us heard the proposed Boeing solution to the current grounding? One of the news programs tonight said they were going to set it up like a JAA Gulfstream 550 IE: both AOA sensors have to sense the limit before MCAS will activate and it will activate only ONCE, not repeatedly. Can't find a link on the net as yet, probably up tomorrow. Unless the MSM pretty face anchor had it wrong; always a possibility.
Well..that's a change to a different problem.
Now, if they make that change and you have one busted AOA and one good one if you approach a stall MCAS simply will not activate.
It's still not going to be idiot proof. Nothing ever is.
Somewhere out there is the guy that will stall it with the one failed AOA and mix the aluminum with the dirt. What shall we blame then?