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komonews.com/news/local/faa-chief-meets-boeing-officials-tries-out-max-simulator
Not super informative, but progress, maybe.
"After practicing simulations of normal flights, he planned to go back in the simulator and test failure situations later Thursday.
It handles like a 737," he told The Associated Press. "The airplane handles very well from everything I can tell."
Dickson said he will fly a Max jet — not just a simulator — before the plane is ungrounded.
The CEO of Ireland's Ryanair said Thursday he doesn't expect the plane to be back in service until February or March.
Canaccord Genuity analyst Ken Herbert, just back from a big aviation conference in Europe, said consensus in the industry is that, while the FAA might un-ground the Max before the end of the year, Europe's regulator is expected to take about three months longer — and could require Chicago-based Boeing to make additional changes to the plane. Regulators in Canada and India have also indicated they could break with the FAA.
Kinda thin on the testing news, but interesting that Ryanair is predicting Feb or March return to service. After possible changes required by EASA. So will the FAA then need to re-re-certify those changes?