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Bend alot
Think mod status is not finished, about a dozen "airline pilots" and the new FAA chief have played in the simulator - but very few details have emerged.
This secrecy and and lack of transparency was probably 99% of Boeing's fall from grace, yet they still insist on it.
Take the gag orders of the recent simulator pilots and explain what you subjected them to, and let them talk about what they thought.
Raises the question of what exactly will be the 'production' code that they will test? Haven't met any software yet that didn't require continuing upgrades and then patches - have to snap the line somewhere. This may not be a Boeing gag order either. I could well understand why both the FAA (who has to 'sell' the fix to other agencies) and the airlines whose test crews apparently flew both the original code and revised code would not want to go on record as good-to-go or not.