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Old 8th Apr 2019, 14:59
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Originally Posted by edmundronald
Why not just disable MCAS, leave the pilots to trim as usual, and retrain them a bit to deal with the feel of the plane at a high AoA?
Zero software to write, and no new bugs introduced.
Because as they say in the industry, new features always means new bugs.


Edmund
Agreed, waive the Part 25 criteria and show the handling change in the sim. It would be nice to know what that envelope is. I'm surprised 737 pilots, pre the final incident, were happy flying an aircraft where if they were unlucky enough to apply the Emergency AD, they then would be at risk of encountering the envelope without MCAS and Boeing/FAA do not even warn about it in the AD.
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