Originally Posted by
EEngr
Probably because other companies had asked Boeing to make the MAX similar enough to the NG to require no additional training. With possible contract language attached (my assumption). So if enough people say they need extra training, maybe the FAA will catch on and tell everyone to get it. And Boeing would have to do an about face on the issue and maybe cough up some cash or simulator time to those that they made promises to.
Boeing developed the MAX because they woke up and found they were second place to Airbus.
They had to get back in the game fast and at any cost.
Any cost ended up NO COST and a few Jedi's.
Lion Air wanted MAX simulator training and Boeing persuaded them not to - Ethiopian had one of the 3 MAX simulators in the World at the time of second crash.
Interestingly Southwest had the $1M per frame sim training deal (seems exclusively) - that suggests they had doubts, and it was a Boeing incentive idea not customers demand.
- In reply to another post, there are only 3 known MCAS events 2 Lion Air and 1 Ethiopian. The first Lion Air event took some time to disable and an extra pilot in the cockpit that assisted to deactivate it, it seems they reported it as STS running in wrong direction.
During the development of the MAX Boeing needed to make Rick Assessments and the results determinate what path to follow or what was required. These were not carried out "accurately".
So as example of this - What is the worst that could happen if I thrust this large knife into your chest?
Most of us would say the worst is it could be fatal, but Boeing would say you might get cut and need a band-aid.
That is how MCAS ended up on the MAX, acceptable as a low risk.
Now as you can see the band-aid needs to be replaced to address a possible fatal condition. The aircraft has been designed and built, and the first aid kit only contains a box of band-aids to work with. The gloves (the FAA) were foolishly throw away when the first band-aid was applied.