Originally Posted by
yanrair
And of course how else can you test the scenario at headquarters on Boeing Sims without pilots who have studied the crash in minute detail and are fully expecting it?
All pilots world wide are pretty aware by now. It’s like tying to find a clean jury. Actually you can.
You. Introduce the failure on a regular sim session with a crew who think they are doing something completely different and are not training captains. We do it all the time on sim checks. Then you see how they cope.
Even better try it on a 737NG (Not MAX) crew expecting unreliable air speed or similar fault and see what happens. Just mimic the (existing) MCAS actions using the trim.
This would match what Lion air pilots were faced with, before MCAS was 'discovered' behaviour was claimed to match 737NG.