Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX Investigation Preliminary Report

Re:Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX Investigation Preliminary Report by msbarnett on Thursday April 04, 2019 @08:31PM (#19578508)

Setting it to climb is literally a memory item, pictured here: https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/24739/what-is-t.... That’s pitch 5 degrees up, thrust at climb at their altitude.

Why? Because your instruments disagree about your airspeed. You want to have a large margin to keep your speed high enough that you won’t accidentally stall while you try to establish what’s reliable.

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Re:Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX Investigation Preliminary Report by VBprogrammer on Friday April 05, 2019 @03:39AM (#19580530)

Sure, and you then hold that until the aircraft stalls at 45000ft? Of course not.

You can't point at a memory item and treat it like the pilots can only apply what's in there in exclusion to everything else. The structural limits of the aircraft are there for a reason.

Aside from anything else the pilots were trying to maintain altitude by their communication with ATC.

Not that I'm blaming them. I think they had too much going on to even consider moving the throttles, and thats 100% on Beoing, but it probably didn't help their chances of recovery.

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