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I believe the FAA should have insisted that the MAX get several hundred hours in the air - e.g. flying for courier companies over Christmas peak - BEFORE recert
by canada_dry 6y ago
I believe the FAA should have insisted that the MAX get several hundred hours in the air - e.g. flying for courier companies over Christmas peak - BEFORE recertifying it for public use.
- dghlsakjg 6y agoWhy would that be better than the hundreds of hours of flight testing that they have done since the plane was grounded? Everyday flights are as boring as possible on purpose, you do everything you can to keep the plane away from the limits. Flight testing inverts that. You run everything to the limit, and beyond, to see if it is possible for systems to fail.
- ClumsyPilot 6y agoWhile that's true, the flight testing is done by skilled pilots, while courier flights could be done by some who's really scraping yhe barrel.
- dingaling 6y ago> Everyday flights are as boring as possible on purpose But the frequency of flights increases the probability of an unusual or unforeseen event occurring, or tested events occurring but in combination. Just like beta testing. It's also how the Soviet regulators certified their aircraft, they required them to operate for a year or more on cargo and mail flights so that they were exposed to a wide range of environmental and operational scenarios. > Everyday flights are as boring as possible on purpose So were the commercial 737 Max flights, yet here we are.