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Pilots are highly trained. They go through many hours of simulated flights. After an incident like this, any pilots still flying a MAX will be drilled on this s

Pilots are highly trained. They go through many hours of simulated flights. After an incident like this, any pilots still flying a MAX will be drilled on this specific failure. If you start to see pilots refuse to fly it, that’s when you should worry. Aviation adapts to problems and it always has. Southwest installed additional gear on their planes to help prevent this when the first plane crashed. It’s not far fetched that companies in countries with lesser regulations might skip out on training or plane enhancements that would lessen the chances of this problem.

hirowan 7y ago
> After an incident like this ... Clearly, that didn't happen, or a second MAX wouldn't have crashed under very similar circumstances. > Southwest installed additional gear on their planes to help prevent this when the first plane crashed. Southwest ordered the MAX with an AoA indicator; it wasn't retrofitted. > ... to help prevent this ... It's questionable whether the AoA indicator would've made a difference. However, an AoA disagree alert that is standard in the previous 737 gen was "accidentally" made part of the AoA indicator extra feature set on the MAX, and the AoA disagree just _might_ have made a difference. [1] > It’s not far fetched that companies in countries with lesser regulations might skip out on training or plane enhancements that would lessen the chances of this problem. An AoA indicator is not mandatory anywhere in the world. [1] https://www.aviationtoday.com/2019/05/06/boeing-angle-of-attack-disagree-alert/ https://www.aviationtoday.com/2019/05/06/boeing-angle-of-att...
codedokode 7y ago
I doubt that. Pilots get used to flying on an autopilot and often make mistakes when they have to control everything manually. Recent example is a crash of SSJ100 in Moscow where the pilots failed to land the plane manually when the computer turned off. If you make controls more complicated, pilots will make more mistakes in critical situation.

hirowan 7y ago

> After an incident like this ... Clearly, that didn't happen, or a second MAX wouldn't have crashed under very similar circumstances. > Southwest installed additional gear on their planes to help prevent this when the first plane crashed. Southwest ordered the MAX with an AoA indicator; it wasn't retrofitted. > ... to help prevent this ... It's questionable whether the AoA indicator would've made a difference. However, an AoA disagree alert that is standard in the previous 737 gen was "accidentally" made part of the AoA indicator extra feature set on the MAX, and the AoA disagree just _might_ have made a difference. [1] > It’s not far fetched that companies in countries with lesser regulations might skip out on training or plane enhancements that would lessen the chances of this problem. An AoA indicator is not mandatory anywhere in the world. [1] https://www.aviationtoday.com/2019/05/06/boeing-angle-of-attack-disagree-alert/ https://www.aviationtoday.com/2019/05/06/boeing-angle-of-att...

codedokode 7y ago

I doubt that. Pilots get used to flying on an autopilot and often make mistakes when they have to control everything manually. Recent example is a crash of SSJ100 in Moscow where the pilots failed to land the plane manually when the computer turned off. If you make controls more complicated, pilots will make more mistakes in critical situation.