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Walter is right here. This procedure is the same (and not just for the 737 airframe family). Even though the cutout switches changed function (and this is the m
by atdrummond 7y ago
Walter is right here. This procedure is the same (and not just for the 737 airframe family). Even though the cutout switches changed function (and this is the main area I actually fault Boeing on), if the flights had executed the cutout properly after the needed adjustments, they could have stabilized.
Source: my former business ran heavy check maintenance software for most of the world's largest airines.
- hef19898 7y agoDoes it really help so if the procedure is the same but the critical element, the cut-off switch changed function? I'd say no, in that case procedure had changed. If it would have just been some kind of human error, like Air France 447, it wouldn't have grounded the whole fleet for the time being.
- atdrummond 7y agoIt didn't change in a way that would have not stabilized the plane. What it did do is remove granularity (again, not sure why, as the 737NG setup is perfectly fine) in the options available to the pilot. Regardless, the SOP on using the cutout switches did not change.