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If by confusion you mean getting the failed engine wrong, there are already technical mitigations that exist (as noted by the article). They just haven't been r

If by confusion you mean getting the failed engine wrong, there are already technical mitigations that exist (as noted by the article). They just haven't been retrofitted to ancient 737s.

wkat4242 3y ago
Even to the latest 737s in fact. Boeing has successfully lobbied for an exception to having to install EICAS systems specifically to avoid having to re-train and re-certify pilots. And this was after they murdered hundreds of people in order to achieve the same goal with the 737MAX. The author mentions this in another article about the infamous British Midland flight: https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/lefts-rights-and-wrongs-the-crash-of-british-midland-flight-92-or-the-kegworth-air-disaster-a3989feb4d3a#:%7E:text=On%20the%208th%20of%20January,height%20of%20just%20900%20feet https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/lefts-rights-and-wrongs-... > And yet, despite this fact, the Boeing 737 still does not come with an EICAS. 737s are rolling off the assembly line at this very moment without the system. This is because adding an EICAS would disrupt the continuity between the various 737 models, forcing pilots to receive separate type ratings for 737s with EICAS and those without. This feature of the 737 series is so fundamental that when a rule requiring EICAS on new models certified in the US came into effect at the end of 2022, Boeing and 737 operators lobbied Congress to grant an exemption, allowing the FAA to finish certifying the new 737 MAX 10 and MAX 7 without an EICAS. The pressure was immense: after all, major airlines didn’t want to buy the MAX 10 and MAX 7 if their pilots would have to acquire a new type rating to fly them, and if the airlines weren’t going to buy the models, then Boeing wasn’t going to build them, resulting in job losses and a shortage of narrow body airliners on the market. As a result, in the immediate future, 737s will continue to fly around the world without the benefit of EICAS, even though nearly every other modern airliner now has the system. There were of course compelling reasons behind the exemption, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a trade-off. Of course those arguments are BS anyway, the airlines are not going to stop buying airliners just because of some type rating requirements. It's not as if they have any choice. Boeing is just worried they'll buy Airbus instead.

If by confusion you mean getting the failed engine wrong, there are already technical mitigations that exist (as noted by the article). They just haven't been retrofitted to ancient 737s.

wkat4242 3y ago

Even to the latest 737s in fact. Boeing has successfully lobbied for an exception to having to install EICAS systems specifically to avoid having to re-train and re-certify pilots. And this was after they murdered hundreds of people in order to achieve the same goal with the 737MAX. The author mentions this in another article about the infamous British Midland flight: https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/lefts-rights-and-wrongs-the-crash-of-british-midland-flight-92-or-the-kegworth-air-disaster-a3989feb4d3a#:%7E:text=On%20the%208th%20of%20January,height%20of%20just%20900%20feet https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/lefts-rights-and-wrongs-... > And yet, despite this fact, the Boeing 737 still does not come with an EICAS. 737s are rolling off the assembly line at this very moment without the system. This is because adding an EICAS would disrupt the continuity between the various 737 models, forcing pilots to receive separate type ratings for 737s with EICAS and those without. This feature of the 737 series is so fundamental that when a rule requiring EICAS on new models certified in the US came into effect at the end of 2022, Boeing and 737 operators lobbied Congress to grant an exemption, allowing the FAA to finish certifying the new 737 MAX 10 and MAX 7 without an EICAS. The pressure was immense: after all, major airlines didn’t want to buy the MAX 10 and MAX 7 if their pilots would have to acquire a new type rating to fly them, and if the airlines weren’t going to buy the models, then Boeing wasn’t going to build them, resulting in job losses and a shortage of narrow body airliners on the market. As a result, in the immediate future, 737s will continue to fly around the world without the benefit of EICAS, even though nearly every other modern airliner now has the system. There were of course compelling reasons behind the exemption, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a trade-off. Of course those arguments are BS anyway, the airlines are not going to stop buying airliners just because of some type rating requirements. It's not as if they have any choice. Boeing is just worried they'll buy Airbus instead.