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> - Understated the power of the new flight control system, which was designed to swivel the horizontal tail to push the nose of the plane down to avert a stall
by JustSomeNobody 8y ago
> - Understated the power of the new flight control system, which was designed to swivel the horizontal tail to push the nose of the plane down to avert a stall. When the planes later entered service, MCAS was capable of moving the tail more than four times farther than was stated in the initial safety analysis document.
> - Failed to account for how the system could reset itself each time a pilot responded, thereby missing the potential impact of the system repeatedly pushing the airplane’s nose downward.
This likely would not have been included in the simulator, right? So, even if pilots had be given more training, it would not have done much good. The system would still be acting different to the training.
- dukoid 8y agoInteresting... Are the commercial flight simulators using an actual physics / aerodynamic model with all the components -- or just empirical data and lookup tables / expectations? I suppose in the latter case, behavior is more likely to deviate from reality? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Plane_(simulator)#Flight_model https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Plane_(simulator)#Flight_mod...
- bdavis__ 8y agoi think in this case there is no '737 MAX' simulator, as the existing 737 simulators were considered identical for flight training. back to your question, most full fidelity flight simulations use actual models that are validated against flight test data. and in most cases, they run the same software code as is used in the actual air vehicle. which brings us back to the question..is a 737 MAX the same as other 737's? No.