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Old 2nd Apr 2019, 23:33
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Oakape
 
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For years military aviation has been going down the path, where the aircraft needs a certain level of automation just to be able to fly. It seems that that philosophy is creeping into commercial aviation in the never ending quest for cost reduction & the 737 MAX & it’s MCAS is evidence of that trend. The thing the designers seem to have forgotten or ignored is that in an airliner we can’t eject when the automation fails or does what is unintended.
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