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Re:Boeing's upgraded 737 Max completes first flight with med... by dotancohen on Thursday December 03, 2020 @07:15AM (#25288117) 

  > The airlines slowdown due to COVID likely gave them some
  > serious breathing room while they got their shit together.
Though I agree with you, Boeing could have really used the time to properly train 737 type pilots on the MCAS-specific issues. But the whole purpose of MCAS was to not retrain pilots, so instead of those pilot spending the past half year training on the new system, they spent the past half year mostly grounded.
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Re:Boeing's upgraded 737 Max completes first flight with med... by kayfox on Thursday December 03, 2020 @06:02PM (#25296582)
Training pilots before a training program is approved is kinda like throwing money into a fire. They would still have to turn around and train them again with the approved training.

Also, being has little to do with the actual decisions on what and how to train pilots not employed by them, the airlines develop training programs that are approved by the FAA and operated with FAA oversight.

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