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Thread: 737 MAX
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05-07-2019, 10:23 AM #126
So what's with the no smoking indicator lights? Haven't smoked on an airplane for 25 years, but yet every airplane has a non-smoking light. I think we've got it sussed now, can't smoke on a plane. So save some money, don't install the no smoking lights but install the fix/warning lights etc for the plane nose-diving. Damn, I should be an avionics consultant.
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05-07-2019, 10:42 AM #127
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05-07-2019, 10:56 AM #128
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05-07-2019, 11:33 AM #129
When you blow a tire going 70 mph on the freeway, the tpms light becomes irrelevant.
Stick shaker activation on liftoff is a crap your pants moment. You don't need any extra warnings. The gravity of the situation was not lost on either of those crews.
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05-07-2019, 11:59 AM #130
Is gravity a pun?
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05-07-2019, 12:09 PM #131Registered User
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Good catch ! ^^
thread drift : I figured out that if you feel the vehicle kind of sway and not come back reasonably fast as normal its cuz the tire is going soft so if you can get stopped fast enough you won't completely destroy the tire and it can still be patchedLee Lau - xxx-er is the laziest Asian canuck I know
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05-07-2019, 12:11 PM #132
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05-07-2019, 12:48 PM #133
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05-07-2019, 12:53 PM #134
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05-07-2019, 02:31 PM #135
the times podcast had an excellent episode on boeing:
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcas...=1000436137931j'ai des grands instants de lucididididididididi
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05-08-2019, 06:29 AM #136
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05-09-2019, 01:39 PM #137
https://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/...ware-developer
Another perspective on the issue....
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05-09-2019, 01:57 PM #138Registered User
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Very interesting
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05-09-2019, 02:17 PM #139
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05-09-2019, 02:39 PM #140Registered User
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05-09-2019, 03:32 PM #141Registered User
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Great article. Very good explanation. Any quibbles from our resident experts?
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05-09-2019, 03:40 PM #142
A lot of truth mixed with an unfortunate amount of speculation in there. Shame he didn't track down some specifics about the certification, because the speculation that it didn't even require an STC reads as totally made-up. A further shame because the issues surrounding that are real and the details (if they ever come out) would be very interesting to know.
The matter of why the two computers don't cross check is similarly speculative. Cross checking in these systems has absolutely been discussed for decades. The view from my tiny knothole 15 years ago was that the complexity of certifying systems with exponentially more failure modes to analyze (due to more inputs and combinations) made certification impossible, and of course they also make more complex systems, which the author rightly paints as problematic in itself.
I'm not saying he's wrong about where it should go, and I certainly agree that Boeing's abandoning their prior approach (and the defining difference between them and Airbus) is tragic. As an outside observer I've always thought there should be some better approach, too, but the assumption that the problem is so simple and obvious that MCAS' existence must mean no one even asked the obvious question is factually incorrect.
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05-14-2019, 10:31 PM #143Registered User
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American Airline pilots met with Boeing before latest crash:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/14/b...ane-crash.html
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05-15-2019, 08:57 AM #144Funky But Chic
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From that article (the quote was highlighted in the paper edition this morning):
Another American pilot, Todd Wissing, expressed frustration that no mention of the system had been included in the training manual for the 737 Max. "I would think that there would be a priority of putting explanations of things that could kill you," Mr. Wissing said.
You'd think.
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08-31-2019, 12:43 PM #145
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08-31-2019, 01:15 PM #146
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08-31-2019, 04:17 PM #147Registered User
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08-31-2019, 05:20 PM #148
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08-31-2019, 09:59 PM #149
That was fascinating.
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09-01-2019, 01:22 PM #150
Worst new product launch since New Coke..
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