> even worse, not exported to the training material of the pilots According to this article (https://www.vox.com/business-and-finance/2019/3/29/18281270/737-ma

> even worse, not exported to the training material of the pilots According to this article (https://www.vox.com/business-and-finance/2019/3/29/18281270/737-max-faa-scandal-explained https://www.vox.com/business-and-finance/2019/3/29/18281270/...), this was a requirement of the 737-MAX while it was being developed. It needed to be sold as pretty much the same as it's predecessors, therefore requiring minimal retraining. > The training piece is important because a key selling feature of the 737 Max was the idea that since it wasn’t really a new plane, pilots didn’t really need to be retrained for the new equipment. As the New York Times reported, “For many new airplane models, pilots train for hours on giant, multimillion-dollar machines, on-the-ground versions of cockpits that mimic the flying experience and teach them new features” while the experienced 737 Max pilots were allowed light refresher courses that you could do on an iPad. > That let Boeing get the planes into customers’ hands quickly and cheaply, but evidently at the cost of increasing the possibility of pilots not really knowing how to handle the planes, with dire consequences for everyone involved.