Airplanes and Accounting Games: The Coming Boeing Collapse?

Re:Airplanes and Accounting Games: The Coming Boeing Collapse? by johannes1234321 on Thursday December 19, 2019 @05:57PM (#21840133)

One of the issues with the system was that pilots didn't know about the system. It is possible to add an override and train pilots accordingly. The question is what kind of requirements the relevant authorities put on it and when they are willing to sign the papers. After two fatal crashes this isn't a rubber stamp but solvable.

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Re:Airplanes and Accounting Games: The Coming Boeing Collapse? by akira2501 on Thursday December 19, 2019 @06:04PM (#21840194)

> It is possible to add an override and train pilots accordingly.

This was always possible. The reason Boeing didn't do it in the first place is because it would have required full retraining of all pilots.. the promise of the 737-MAX, at least from an airline perspective, is that you can take all your existing 737 pilots and put them through a much shorter cross-training program and immediately have highly qualified staff operating these planes in your fleet.

Without this, the 737-MAX will have to be operated as any other entirely new aircraft. Boeing's mistake here really is manifold.

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Re:Airplanes and Accounting Games: The Coming Boeing Collapse? by johannes1234321 on Thursday December 19, 2019 @06:07PM (#21840218)

> Without this, the 737-MAX will have to be operated as any other entirely new aircraft.

Whatever they do - scrap it an build a new model (be it derived from 737 pre-MAX or something else) or "fixing" 737-MAX there will be lots of eyes on it and request for training. I don't think the argument is relevant. They are too deep in the sh*t.

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