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Re:The Case Against Boeing by kortilla on Saturday November 16, 2019 @03:34PM (#21554791)
Well it can matter if it turns out the issue wasn’t engineering so much as clearly communicating that it’s a different aircraft so the pilots can be trained correctly.
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Re:The Case Against Boeing by CydeWeys on Saturday November 16, 2019 @06:27PM (#21555593)
It's still unacceptably dangerous even if this difference is communicated. To be safe, at a very minimum you would need triply redundant AoA sensors, an MCAS engaged notification, and an MCAS cutoff switch.
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Re:The Case Against Boeing by kortilla on Monday November 18, 2019 @12:47AM (#21562183)
There is an MCAS cutoff switch and the side effects of MCAS runaway are visible on the trim wheel. This was a non-issue for the pilots that were correctly trained.
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Re:The Case Against Boeing by jacobush on Saturday November 16, 2019 @05:51PM (#21555455)
The whole point was to reuse the 737 typing. Boeing messed up. (Other parties messed up too, but Boeing started this.)
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