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> Airbus’s flight envelope protection prevents pilots from stalling the plane. To be fair, that's what Boeing's MCAS was also trying to do. It's just that Airb
by sofixa 4y ago
> Airbus’s flight envelope protection prevents pilots from stalling the plane.
To be fair, that's what Boeing's MCAS was also trying to do. It's just that Airbus aren't incompetent and/or criminally negligent, and don't hide the existence of such automations.
- kayodelycaon 4y agoMCAS wasn’t intended as a safety system. It was designed to make the Max behave like previous 737 models.
- sofixa 4y agoIt was designed to avoid stalling in conditions under which the previous 737 wouldn't, and thus to make the Max behave the same.
- kayodelycaon 4y agoThat doesn’t make it a safety system. It wasn’t integrated as part of any kind of flight envelope protection and it wasn’t necessary to fly a plane of that design safely. The issue was they decided to use automation to avoid training pilots on how the plane actually behaves. That kills people.