Originally Posted by
Cloud Cutter
What an ignorant comment. From a systems perspective, if aircraft design results in a situation that is 100% reliant on crew to flick the stab trim switches off, in a time critical, startling, highly dynamic scenario, the fault is almost entirely with the design of the aircraft. I thought we'd moved on a bit from the 'blame the human at the end of the error chain' mentality, but clearly some among us still have some way to go.
Ignorant seems a little rough. Ultimately, the human has to be the one capture the errors, either by system design or induced. There are some inherently dangerous designs that require a crew to be the last defense. But I cant imagine a single MAX crew in the world that doesn't brief before takeoff...Hey, when the flaps come up and if that trim wheel starts a goin"...then shut those STAB switches OFF! And I wouldn't say MCAS is a design failure...works great, until it doesn't...kind of like my brother-in-law.