Originally Posted by
Water pilot
In a statement to CNN, the FAA claims that they knew that MCAS would cause a stabilizer runaway but they just expected pilots to
deal with it.
My question for the FAA representative would have been "if you had found some faulty hardware component on a 737 that increased the risk of a trim runaway, would you have directed airlines to fix it, or would it be OK because pilots know how to deal with it?"
Engine shutdown on takeoff? No prob, pilots are trained for that one. Dual failure over water? Hey, it worked for Sully! There is a lot about my country that I no longer recognize, and our engineering safety culture seems to be the latest casualty of whatever infection is messing with our brains. I'm waiting for one of the talking heads to inform us that randomly pitching the nose down on rotation is actually a good thing because it keeps the pilots from getting bored and lazy!
CNN response should have been - Then why have you grounded the 737 MAX?
And why is the 767 tanker MCAS so different to the MAX- anything to do with training required?