Re:Boeing 737 Max pilots complained to feds for months about...
by mcv on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @06:47AM
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> The appeal of the 737 MAX for airlines was that it was intentionally made so that you could take crews with a 737 qualification and put them in.
Really? Everything I heard so far sounds like the 737 MAX has a few new, unusual or counter intuitive features that require extra training, and that training material skimped on training for that.
> "just old 737 nothing new here hop in"
Am I correct in understanding that was a blatant lie?
Re:Boeing 737 Max pilots complained to feds for months about...
by fsloth on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @08:42AM
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Not an expert, I'm basing my comment on stuff I've learned from third party sources.
It does not sound to me like lying, more like a confusion of project constraints. I.e. "make the plane better but don't touch this and this and this arbitrary system".
Re:Boeing 737 Max pilots complained to feds for months about...
by usrusr on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @08:55AM
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In short: the safety requirements for doing it properly are so high that they were artfully avoided. The aeronautical analog to byzantine password requirements that only make people susceptible to post-it password management?
I.e the airlines could save money on training.
The main design constraint on that bird was that it should pass most of the old paperwork so that Boeing nor airlines would need to go through expensive training and quification.
Yet, they modified the plane quite a bit - but they could not modernize several systems since they would have to then go through rigorous and expensive testing. ..
Nobody seems to underline this fact.
I bet that's the actual reason they didn't put the automatic pitch modification system to any documentation - it would not fit on the description of "just old 737 nothing new here hop in".