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by swasheck 2467 days ago
> Everything I have ever seen is that the whole point of airplane design and pilot training is to reduce flight problems to known solutions as to resolve the problem as quickly as possible. The very design of MCAS is failure must put the pilot into an unknown position and likely be actively combating the pilot’s understand of the situation. If this logic is correct, I cannot fathom how any of this is acceptable.

This is the salient paragraph in this comment. It's ridiculous to blame pilots for figuring out recovery conditions when they can't be certain of the parameters in which they're operating.