Originally Posted by
Loose rivets
Still concentrating on the Human Factor - the miserable consuming confusion while under stress.
Recently I said.
However, Lord Farringdon put it far better, and in commoner's language.
Hopefully by now the ET captain may well have linked the duff AoA with an airspeed error and stick-shake, but not the failure of the AP to stay locked on for more than three seconds. He was probably processing that while the wheel spun for 9 seconds.
I recall leaving the classrooms after Type conversions with a reasonable knowledge of system interactions . . . at best. Usually, the light-bulb would come on after 300 to 500 hours and a lot of work. How one system affected another was the most difficult part of any type conversion for me, and in the modern world, I'd imagine the MAX is an order of magnitude more involved. I have to concede 737 Driver's 'Fly and then press on with the drills', rather than analyse too deeply is vital. It's simply too complex these days.
Minor correction, after a couple of false starts the autopilot was engaged for more than 30 seconds, just long enough to provide a false sense of "not that bad"?
Then it all hit the fan on short order with AP disconnect followed by MCAS.