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With this line of argument pretty much nothing is a software issue since software is mostly there to compensate for something else: speed, errors, efficiency, m
by ksajadi 8y ago
With this line of argument pretty much nothing is a software issue since software is mostly there to compensate for something else: speed, errors, efficiency, manual labour, etc?
Highlighting the facts behind the design decisions of 737Max 8 is good for general knowledge but doesn’t help with much else in this context.
To follow this line of argument, I’d claim that this is the fault of old airports that didn’t have jetways so 737 had to be designed with lower body to allow folding stairways and so on...
- D_Alex 8y agoYes... and furthermore: it seems that a key problem was: > MCAS can make huge nose down changes This, to me, is really odd. All the hardware changes could not, AFAICT, require that. It seems really dumb that the MCAS system was made to be capable, in principle, of completely overpowering pilot input. Is it a software problem...? Well, if the MCAS was limited to making only small changes in the stabiliser position, that could be counteracted by pilot's input to the elevators, these accidents would not have happened. AFAICT. It does seem that software contributed to the accidents.