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Well eetimes got some clicks, so job well done for the journalist who wrote this article about a blog post by some guy with experience flying large planes in a
by Luc 8y ago
Well eetimes got some clicks, so job well done for the journalist who wrote this article about a blog post by some guy with experience flying large planes in a flight sim.
- donedealomg 8y agoWelcome to the internet.
- kevsim 8y agoSo much for journalistic integrity. Might as well have just said “some guy on the internet”.
- inferiorhuman 8y agoMore accurate to say I've flown a 737 on my computer.
- tlrobinson 8y agoYeah but he’s an “instrument-rated pilot” (in his Cessna) /s
- salawat 8y agoWhile they're is definitely a gap in the physical nature of controlling the two platforms, the fundamentals underlying both pieces of flying equipment are the same, and in most of the ways that really matter, there is no real difference between an MCAS like system on a Cessna vs a 737. [waits for the multi-engine and fundamentally different airframe crowds to die down] At the end of the day, strip out every system not at fault, and you have a pilot fighting a machine he isn't aware of the exact details of in terms of how it's response to various control inputs are translated to behavior of the plane. Any pilot period (and any honest Engineer) should be capable of recognizing the 737 and the MAX 8 are entirely different planes on a fundamental level. You may have made your comment in sarcasm, but it is kind of an Emperor's New Clothes situation going on for Boeing right now. When the laypeople can be quickly brought up to speed that something isn't fundamentally the same, yet you (the principal engineering firm) dig in your heels to insist it is, you've committed some grievous breach of public trust.
- dustindiamond 8y agoWell, we at HN got some good discourse out of it, no?
- Luc 8y agoThe saving grace. Just the headline was enough of a prompt for that.
- rootusrootus 8y agoNot sure I would call it 'good' but we did sure get a lot more chatter. I wonder if collectively this is the most comments a particular issue has ever received on HN. So many articles posted, each gets hundreds of comments.