Originally Posted by
FGD135
You are spending a lot of time and effort on trying to trim for nose-up, but something keeps trimming nose-down. Pretty easy to figure out.
The Ethiopian crew didn’t figure that out on a blue sky CAVOK day. The Lion air crew didn’t figure that out even with a dedicated maintenance engineer on the flight deck looking for the problem. What about in real bad weather when you need all your skill. I don’t want to have an aircraft acting on me then. If it takes a test pilot, o.k. then the Max is test pilots only...
That the other airlines got away with it might well be more luck than skill.