Re:Airplanes and Accounting Games: The Coming Boeing Collapse?
by phkahler on Thursday December 19, 2019 @08:18PM
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>> The handling problems were worse than anticipated as is evidenced by the low-speed activation of MCAS.
I'd say the handling is bad enough to require something like MCAS in order to be safe. If not, they would have just disabled it and ate the cost of training pilots for the new variant. Instead they think it's better (cheaper) to try to fix MCAS while letting planes pile up that will likely require extra training on the new fix anyway.
In other words I agree. It probably doesnt fly well without help, as opposed to just flying differently.
I'd say the handling is bad enough to require something like MCAS in order to be safe. If not, they would have just disabled it and ate the cost of training pilots for the new variant. Instead they think it's better (cheaper) to try to fix MCAS while letting planes pile up that will likely require extra training on the new fix anyway.
In other words I agree. It probably doesnt fly well without help, as opposed to just flying differently.