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This article is less compelling than the title would suggest. After the Lion Air crash the FAA released a Emergency Airworthiness Directive, these five comment
by Someone1234 8y ago
This article is less compelling than the title would suggest.
After the Lion Air crash the FAA released a Emergency Airworthiness Directive, these five comments are in response to that directive. That differentiates it from pilots that had a negative run-in with MCAS or other defects in the 737 Max 8 (which would be significant news).
This article might inform you pilots are unhappy, but that fact has been widely circulated elsewhere since the Lion Air crash. The fact that five pilots submitted official comments doesn't add to what we knew.
These comments for example wouldn't have helped inform the FAA's decisions, since the FAA told the pilots about the issues in the Emergency Airworthiness Directive that these comments are based upon.
- V-eHGsd_ 8y agoI assumed they were talking about nasa reports. You can find a few if you search for 737-800 and AOA on the asrs site.
- int_19h 8y agoThe comments seem to be recounting personal experiences of those pilots though, not their reactions to the initial disclosure.
- Someone1234 8y agoMany of them are recounting how they didn't receive enough training and only found out after the initial disclosure. Nobody said they weren't personal experiences, just that those experiences are about the FAA directive/training rather than with the aircraft itself/MCAS.
- mimixco 8y agoThe Dallas News report shows two separate complaints where the pilots knew of and discussed MCAS on the flight deck before take off and still had serious problems with it.
- kayfox 8y agoThey had serious problems with the autopilot, which also disables MCAS.