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Yeah but he’s an “instrument-rated pilot” (in his Cessna) /s
by tlrobinson 8y ago
Yeah 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.