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Then the correct and simple solution is to rip out the MCAS and re-train all the pilots.
by lamontcg 5y ago
Then the correct and simple solution is to rip out the MCAS and re-train all the pilots.
- VBprogrammer 5y agoAs several comments here have stated, it's unlikely that the 737 Max without MCAS would be a certifiable airplane. In a way MCAS makes the Max fly more like the NG but only in the sense that it makes the Max fly more like any other certifiable airframe. There are plenty of aircraft with common type ratings which are more different than the Max and the NG. As an example the 757 and the 767 share a common type rating.
- lamontcg 5y agoOkay so then the stated objection that I quoted is technically incorrectly, but the spirit is the same. This is not a well-engineered plane and it requires the MCAS to fly it, and without the electronic band-aid the flight envelope would never have been acceptable. So it might not exactly be a fighter jet but its outside of the bounds of passenger airlines.
- adgjlsfhk1 5y agothis just isn't true. Airbus has used tricks like this for decades without problems. the problem was just a totally incompetent implementation.