MaverickSawyer
Acolyte of the Probe
But, it's still tolerant of a single failed sensor, right? That's the rub of the issue with MCAS on the MAX. It's NOT tolerant of a single failed sensor.
But, it's still tolerant of a single failed sensor, right? That's the rub of the issue with MCAS on the MAX. It's NOT tolerant of a single failed sensor.
Aaaah, I thought they'd fixed that.
At the rate they're currently building them, though, they're going to run out of ramp space by the end of the month.
Although it's possible to disable the MCAS manually, it requires manually cranking the trim wheel or pressing the MCAS cutout switch on the trim wheel, and 737 pilots are not trained on that because the MAX was certified to not require retraining for existing 737 pilots (!!). Regarding the MCAS system on the MAX:
So I would probably crash the plane, because the autopilot needs to be shut off first. And if I understand you correctly, that's a complicated set of actions. I think the autopilot should disable immediately when any manual input is registered and give full control to the pilot. I doubt whether certificates of airworthiness are issued to planes which fight pilots.
I would be astonished if it turns out that the pilots were struggling to take manual control to pull the plane, a 737 which can be flown manually very easily, out of a descending situation and failed to do so in time. If pilots can't take manual control, why have pilots aboard at all? That's unheard of. So I think some other events must have caused this crash. We'll have to wait.
Two Boeings of TUI enroute to The Netherlands had to land elsewhere because the airspace closed at 20:00hrs. One landed in Bulgaria, one diverted to Gran Canaria.
This makes me quite angry. What a freakshow is this turning into. Denying these planes to finish their planned routes adds nothing to safety. It just causes inconvience for people, extra costs for the airlines and most hypocritical: It exposes the passengers and crew to the risks of an extra take-off and landing.
Don't let these planes take-off then! Planes in-flight should not be subject to the latest dwellings of politicians influenced by the latest messages on Twitter. This makes no sense at all.
Now various news sources are now reporting that the grounding of the 737 is the result of a chain reaction in 'Public emotion'. Exactly the point I made. I named it a snow-ball effect. Again, important safety decision should not be the result op public outcries. That's a dangerous safety flaw by itself.
On the way to complete automation, planes do try to prevent pilots from putting them into dangerous attitudes or positions. So yes the plane will fight against you. Been that way for years.
Again, important safety decision should not be the result op public outcries. That's a dangerous safety flaw by itself.
At this point I would not fly on any Boeing aircraft certified in the last decade at this point. As it seems that something is wrong with the way that the MAX Family was allowed to be sold with out much independent oversight concerns me.
Are modern day airliners becoming so complex that we have to crowd-test them in the field?
No. Boeing decided that profits we're more important than safety, and predictably, they found out the hard way that wasn't a good idea.