Re:My Letter to the Editor of New York Times Magazine
by mannykannot on Monday October 14, 2019 @09:13AM
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Yes, the commonality of pilot experience is an important safety consideration, and something that Boeing has been praised for in the past, but it is the the breaking of that principle (or, more precisely, the attempts to downplay the differences introduced by MCAS) that is the issue in this case.
It also makes the airplane safer if pilots can transfer their experience and training from one aircraft to another, as it reduces the likelihood they'll do something right for one airplane but wrong for another (there have been multiple crashes due to this sort of mistake, even when they were correctly trained for each type).