Re:Boeing's upgraded 737 Max completes first flight with med...
by Dylan16807 on Friday December 04, 2020 @04:53PM
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The plane will stall unless you push the stick differently or adjust the trim. It's something you can compensate for. MCAS doesn't even adjust the trim very fast! It's a hack but that's mainly to avoid retraining, not because the design is inherently all that dangerous.
> The experts who killed 300 people analyzed the mcas and also built it.
It could be fair to avoid all planes coming from those experts. But if you don't trust them to fix a single flaw, why in god's name do you trust them to design an entirely new plane? This is not a reason to push for a redesign.
> No one will get on a plane covered in duck tape no matter how many experts analyzed it.
Ever heard of speed tape?
Most people will either get on the plane when it's fixed, or they will never get on the plane. They're not going to care about the exact details.
> Likely you went to google at some point and tried to find out what that fix was and likely you found nothing. That's a red flag, a huge one.
Sure. Red flag. But a flag is far from conclusive.
> At the very least this is something any wise man should know about before getting onto that plane.
I'm wise enough to not play armchair plane engineer when my life is on the line. If I don't trust the process, then I'll wait for a certain number of flight hours instead. I'm not going to depend on my own ability to analyze plane design.
> The experts who killed 300 people analyzed the mcas and also built it.
It could be fair to avoid all planes coming from those experts. But if you don't trust them to fix a single flaw, why in god's name do you trust them to design an entirely new plane? This is not a reason to push for a redesign.
> No one will get on a plane covered in duck tape no matter how many experts analyzed it.
Ever heard of speed tape?
Most people will either get on the plane when it's fixed, or they will never get on the plane. They're not going to care about the exact details.
> Likely you went to google at some point and tried to find out what that fix was and likely you found nothing. That's a red flag, a huge one.
Sure. Red flag. But a flag is far from conclusive.
> At the very least this is something any wise man should know about before getting onto that plane.
I'm wise enough to not play armchair plane engineer when my life is on the line. If I don't trust the process, then I'll wait for a certain number of flight hours instead. I'm not going to depend on my own ability to analyze plane design.