> Using average pilots instead of highly experienced test pilots is a sensible step to prevent a repeat. It wouldn't have made a difference without the trainin

> Using average pilots instead of highly experienced test pilots is a sensible step to prevent a repeat. It wouldn't have made a difference without the training for this specific MCAS issue. Highly experienced test pilots would have been equally unable to recover had they been flying the planes that crashed. Normal runaway trim is easily handled, but the MCAS-induced runaway trip had the cockpit lighting up with all sorts of errors and warning lights and beeps. The only way to deal with this is to pick up checklists and start going through them... which you simply couldn't do because there was no time. So using pilots selected at random from various airlines is a great idea and should be implemented, but it would not have prevented this situation. Only training might have.