Originally Posted by
davidjpowell
I will happily fly on the Max............
If the fix was as simple as retraining pilots to fly without MCAS, and amending the type rating that would surely have been done.
OK here's the thing -
The 737 Max Type approval (gained using the 1967 737-100/200 approval) was eventually granted by the FAA (and the other countries Aviation Regulatory bodies) only on the basis (after flight testing uncovered some handling instability) that the MACS augmentation software is enabled to ensure the new 737 MAX stays within the same handling parameters of the 737-100/200 Classic, right up to the 737-800/900NG to allow all current 737 Pilots with 737 type approval to fly it
This one of the crucial commonality selling points marketed by Boeing, and also demanded by the airlines.
The MAX without MCAS cannot get Type approval using the 1967 rights, and current 737 Type pilots would not be able to fly it.
Remove MCAS (as many keep saying on the forums) and that leaves an unstable 737 MAX family, versus a stable 737NG family and thus needs a redesign and new approval.
It will no longer be a 737, and we do not know if a new type approval would even be given for it.
I doubt Pilots would be trained as how to handle this aircraft to avoid the undesirable pitch/high power characteristics and so on.
United Airlines have now just removed the MAX from their June 2020 flight schedules -
Therefore IMO it is unlikely we will see the MAX in service for any of Summer 2020 with European charter airlines such as TUI, Enter Air and Smartwings.