Of course MCAS was disclosed to pilots, the idea that it wasn’t is ridiculous to the point of absurdity.
Boeing has gone off the rails, but the general lack of nuance in the common narrative about their failures is really over the top.
MCAS is how a fundamentally different plane behaves (in most cases) like a normal 737. The fact that such a system exists is described, and disclosed, in minute detail to pilots when they get their mandatory training on the 737-MAX.
The specific name wasn’t used in the training, and that’s where this ridiculous narrative came from.
The manual described Elevator Feel Shift, Speed Trim, and Stall Management Yaw Damper. It describes the scenarios in which each of these systems activate and what effect they have.
MCAS uses the same hardware but has different scenarios in which it activates and has a different effect. Not knowing of the existence of MCAS and not having a viable procedure to deactivate it if it went haywire was critical to the two accidents. I've looked into this a lot and to my knowledge this was never disclosed to pilots.
Can you provide a reference to MCAS being disclosed prior to the two accidents?
Boeing has gone off the rails, but the general lack of nuance in the common narrative about their failures is really over the top.
MCAS is how a fundamentally different plane behaves (in most cases) like a normal 737. The fact that such a system exists is described, and disclosed, in minute detail to pilots when they get their mandatory training on the 737-MAX.
The specific name wasn’t used in the training, and that’s where this ridiculous narrative came from.