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Old 16th Mar 2019, 15:11
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Ian W
 
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Originally Posted by CONSO
So Boeng now claims a software fix ready to load in 10 days ? Run a test flight after loading software and put back in service ??

IMHO- this is the equivalent of 1 male plus 1 female = 1 baby in 9 months, therefore 9 men plus 1 woman = 1 baby in 1 month software coding logic

And of course the rest of the world will agree, cuz Boeing said so ??
The change to the initiation of MCAS was being developed as soon as it became apparent that the Lion air crash was due to inability to handle MCAS trimming in error. So that has been since ~Nov 2018. I can envisage simple changes that would not incur your disbelief - for example limit the trimming to a single trim action for MCAS, as there does not appear to be a good reason for multiple nose down trim actions for the claimed raison d'etre, and emable AOA disagree warnings in all Max aircraft. Not all fixes entail significant change to code.
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