MCAS Strikes Again…

[BoeingBobby]

I can find the damn auto pilot anywhere!

[3WE]

I very much highly doubt that she didn't understand that there was no autothrottle.
I think what she didn't understand is how P+P=P works.

Agree and just dissecting. In another YouTube, Otto is climbing and her speed is decaying. She clicks him off and the plane levels (don’t know if trim took it back or a deliberate input from her.)

She comments that speed improves.

Ironingly, she may have listened to you (not me) and know that nose down = stall prevention.

As you know, I’m a little more speed focused…not that that “any speed” rule doesn’t mean something.

I continue to struggle with what she did/didn’t know, but the videos do show a less than solid understanding of why her speed decayed during “cruise”.

[3WE]

I can find the damn auto pilot anywhere!

You better find it AND LEARN HOW TO USE IT, or you might get into a 5000 ft dive in good weather and crash!

[Evan]

I can find the damn auto pilot anywhere!

It's right next to the radio.

[BoeingBobby]

You better find it AND LEARN HOW TO USE IT, or you might get into a 5000 ft dive in good weather and crash!

5000'! I don't think I have ever been that high in a Cub in my life.

[BoeingBobby]

It's right next to the radio.

I actually have a handheld for the Cub. It's been in the closet in my guest room with no batteries in it for about 20 plus years now.

[3WE]

5000'! I don't think I have ever been that high in a Cub in my life.

Coffin corner, where you break up and die.

And, geemanitly, I’ve done it a 172…I guess I need some cool sunglasses.

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[3WE]

In an update- supposedly some data have been recovered from a GoPro or two. I don't need to see it, but hopefully it will determine whether they went down unhappily pushing buttons and asking questions, or (my hope) something broke, or CO or some other medical crisis. (Yes, I usually wind up wrong when I give the benefit of doubt. Just trying to stay positive.)