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Old 12th Feb 2020, 08:26
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Originally Posted by 568
OK I'll bite.

Viewed some of the video and I don't agree with some of his comments.
The rudder PCU's were changed for Cat iii operations and so on.
Think you are wrong there. Unlike all other aircraft, the 737 had a single rudder PCU. (A bit like MCAS only using one AoA sensor - you would have thought Boeing would have learned by now that two is the minimum).

The 737 rudder PCU was made into a dual system because of several incidents and two crashes, not because of Cat III operations. Seem to remember that one of those incidents was on a BA 747, which captured the error on data recorders (the 747 used the same PCU for the elevators).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_rudder_issues

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