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While you say many insightful things, what is grating about your posts is that they seem to imply that many MAX (or at any rate the accident) pilots did not car
by FabHK 7y ago
While you say many insightful things, what is grating about your posts is that they seem to imply that many MAX (or at any rate the accident) pilots did not care, did not read up on it, did not read the newspapers and pilot rumour fora and ADs. Furthermore, you seem to imply that if they had, they could have easily salvaged the situation.
I am pretty sure that most if not all pilots are following these things very carefully. As you know well, Boeing has been way too slow to divulge the information necessary for “learning how the airplane systems worked”.
The Lion Air pilots didn’t know how the system works because they could not know. The Ethiopian Airlines pilots did cut out Stab Trim, and later switched it back on, possibly because they know more about the system than you do, and it made sense to them to deviate from the checklist (just the way you advocate, incidentally) - consider the two switches on the NG and undisclosed change in functionality on the MAX. Or maybe it was a CRM mistake, maybe one pilot thought the other one would hold the etrim switch pressed ANU.
We don’t know yet. But it is rather annoying to read from you how you’d have saved the plane so and so, because you followed the story in the newspaper and value your life and all. But, yeah, keep telling pilots to read the newspapers and inform them that they’ll die if their airplane crashes, maybe then we won’t have any accidents anymore.