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- Tue Mar 19, 2019 1:56 am
- Forum: Real life flying
- Topic: ET302 crash taking off
- Replies: 32
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/16/business/boeing-max-flight-simulator-ethiopia-lion-air.html For many new airplane models, pilots train for hours on giant, multimillion-dollar machines, on-the-ground versions of cockpits that mimic the flying experience and teach them new features. But in the case...
- Mon Mar 18, 2019 12:51 am
- Forum: Real life flying
- Topic: ET302 crash taking off
- Replies: 32
- Views: 19744
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https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/failed-certification-faa-missed-safety-issues-in-the-737-max-system-implicated-in-the-lion-air-crash/ Like all 737s, the MAX actually has two of the sensors, one on each side of the fuselage near the cockpit. But the MCAS was designed to take a...
- Sat Mar 16, 2019 2:38 am
- Forum: Real life flying
- Topic: ET302 crash taking off
- Replies: 32
- Views: 19744
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From my further understanding based off of actual B737 pilots from YouTube, MCAS isn't full time, it only activates only certain parameters of flight under very specific conditions. And, if these pilots are to be believed, they could be overridden only assuming the pilots know what they are doing. T...
- Thu Mar 14, 2019 11:38 am
- Forum: Real life flying
- Topic: ET302 crash taking off
- Replies: 32
- Views: 19744
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If it's to be believed the PIC had 8000hrs experience but only started flying B737s for a little more than a year. The second officer only had like 200hrs overall. If true, I'm sure this is something they are also looking at?
- Thu Mar 14, 2019 1:37 am
- Forum: Real life flying
- Topic: ET302 crash taking off
- Replies: 32
- Views: 19744
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There seems to be some chaos involving getting the data out of the FDR.?
- Wed Mar 13, 2019 11:23 pm
- Forum: Real life flying
- Topic: ET302 crash taking off
- Replies: 32
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The grounding wasn't FAA decision it was a based on preliminary flight data off of what we could all see and not information from the black boxnd voice recorder That la times news article was all over the place.. pilot display for both pilots? What on earth is it on about? Is this one of those A.I. ...
- Wed Mar 13, 2019 12:36 am
- Forum: Real life flying
- Topic: ET302 crash taking off
- Replies: 32
- Views: 19744
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http://www.b737.org.uk/mcas.htm This site offers some really technical details on MCAS. http://www.b737.org.uk/images/mcas-diagram.jpg I had assumed that the AoA source for MCAS was always the Captains AoA probe but the following explanation from an engineer suggests that it alternates between AoA ...
- Tue Mar 12, 2019 11:09 pm
- Forum: Real life flying
- Topic: ET302 crash taking off
- Replies: 32
- Views: 19744
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Why the hell is automatic system "stronger" than pilot's input ? The ages old question of whether the philosophy behind "fly-by-wire" or "die-by wire" technology is fundamentally sound, or not. Yes, whatever happened to pilot having the ultimate control? Boeing screwed...
- Tue Mar 12, 2019 1:56 am
- Forum: Real life flying
- Topic: ET302 crash taking off
- Replies: 32
- Views: 19744
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eerily, these two crashes are similar enough to be hair-rising. The main difference being that for JT610 Lion Air, they should have grounded that particular problem Max in the first place. Instead they continued on, and compounded the problem even though they went through the maintenance check. (Ha...
- Mon Mar 11, 2019 6:20 am
- Forum: Real life flying
- Topic: ET302 crash taking off
- Replies: 32
- Views: 19744
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This is ridiculous. Now I'm angry. As I've always said, new isn't better, it just means new unknowns. Now we have this unknown.