Originally Posted by
jcbmack
we have disparate experts trying to blame the pilots;
With MCAS, the argument is whether or not it was correct to expect the pilots to do the right things at the speed they needed to. MCAS strongly supports the proposition of automated flying, simply because MCAS doesn't work when the plane is flying automatically. The autopilot does not need any special help to cope with the evil larger engine configuration.
If you take the Max crashes and factor out MCAS, you are left with an interesting question: if the plane had been designed so that the computers were in charge: how easy would it have been to program them to cope with the sensor failures?. Inconsistent or suspicious speed etc readings can be caused by a number of system failures so would have to be a class of situations the computers could cope with.. Probably the answer to this is Boeing would have to have built in greater redundancy (ie resilience), more like Airbus do.
And more like Boeing will now have to do anyway.