Boeing 737 Max: Automated Crashes [video]

Re:Boeing 737 Max: Automated Crashes [video] by inferiorhuman on Monday December 30, 2019 @06:12PM (#21917547)

In particular, the Ethiopian flight was in extreme overspeed (if I recall, past the max safe structural speed for the plane!)

While the Ethiopian crew did have the overspeed warning going off, it was well below the "do not exceed" and "max dive" speeds.

I'm not sure whether that was being modeled by the simulator, or if the simulation's model of trim wheel force is a correct one.

It wasn't. Boeing's already admitted that their simulators don't correctly emulate the forces on the trim wheel.

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Re:Boeing 737 Max: Automated Crashes [video] by salawat on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @01:53PM (#21923426)

The borked AoA vane also meant the computer was not calculating airspeed correctly. They were in an Airspeed Unreliable situation, which warrants being generous with power based on the stage of flight.

Climb-out from Adis Ababa (a hot and high airport) means you've got precious little excess in terms of sacrificial power to begin with. The MAX 8 could only take-off at all due to an unusually long runway as I recall.

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