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My hot take on the MAX is that the decision to go for a clean sheet or modernization is immaterial here. Engineering and product development can come up with an
by jnsaff2 3y ago
My hot take on the MAX is that the decision to go for a clean sheet or modernization is immaterial here. Engineering and product development can come up with an analysis that points to the current design having enough room for improvement and be viable in the market.
What was the really big problem and a clearly (in hindsight) wrong decision was to try and get past requirements for a new type certificate requirement for the pilots.
Had they just stood firm and told the airlines that it's not safe to try and monkey-patch the thing to feel like the old one so no retraining however small would need to be made 346 people would not have been killed and the issues would be elsewhere.
- Shawnj2 3y agoYeah the problem isn’t that they edited the 737 design instead of doing a clean sheet- they did it twice before with nearly no issues and making a 737+++ is what the airlines would prefer over a clean sheet- the issue is the staggering amount of corners they cut in the process. Pilot training is a start but also they clearly poorly thought out MCAS and have poor quality production with the door issues.