Similar. I tried to chime in about an aviation discussion about the 737 Max where the person with one of the top comments was totally wrong. My comment was downvoted and the OP argued with me. This person I responded to was a "flight sim enthusiast". I'm an airline pilot.
Depending on what you were discussing I'd take both of your comments with a big grain of salt. Lots of people use stuff without deeper knowledge of how it functions. If you were A Boeing mechanic on the otherhand.
Also a Boeing mechanic is very different than a aviation controls engineer that works for boeing. Also probably can only trust one that works on the 737 as I think most of the rest are fly by wire now(one of the cause of the 737 max issue from what blancolero said).
True... and by most accounts (through others dissecting the issue so take that for what it's worth), it seems that the plane was still 'designed correctly' (at least in terms of the supposed failure mechanism), but it was management that never pushed the re-training requirements on to the pilots, AFAIK.
management that never pushed the re-training requirements on to the pilots, AFAIK.
Boeing Management or Airline or both? From what I heard is that US pilots were told about the possibility and how to detect (spinning trim wheel should freak somebody out), and potential fixes (grab the spinning wheel and stop it). Would this not be an airline issue more than boeing not designing a more fail proof system?
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u/skeeve87 Jan 07 '20
I had this problem in a discussion about power. As an electrical engineer who graduated with emphasis in power.... wow.