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I dont have time to find all the sources for this. But basically Boeing tried to make a flawed plane because it was cheaper and they could fly more people aroun
by codingslave 7y ago
I dont have time to find all the sources for this. But basically Boeing tried to make a flawed plane because it was cheaper and they could fly more people around on less fuel. The plane was also designed for runways in third world countries. Then they hired 8$ an hour software engineers to patch up the issues that they knew about (which ended up taking down the plane anyways).
- FlyMoreRockets 7y agoNot all the sources. Just one, reasonably well documented source. From what I understand, MCAS functions to emulate the similar flight experience of prior 737 aircraft to minimize pilot retraining..l
- Gibbon1 7y agoI think that there are two issues. MCAS was needed because the airplane wouldn't meet FAA rules without it. Fixes for things like that are not necessarily bad. Problem comes from two issues. Not wanting to require retraining meant they tried to bury the MCAS's existence to the point of not having a way to disable it and only it. And second the flight envelope problems were worse than originally expected. So they gave MCAS more control authority. They ended up with a problem where bad inputs to the MCAS system could only be countered by disabling the electric trim motors. Once you did that the only way to fix the trim was via a manual wheel which didn't have enough mechanical advantage when the elevators were loaded. That itself was a festering problem carried forward from the original design.