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he did actually, Instagram comments said it was a 757
Ah, then I hope he keeps flying in one. Cheers.
In a 757?
That's one of the most reliable aircraft Boeing ever made, out of 1049 made from 1981 to 2004, only 10 have been lost - 2 of which were lost on Sep. 11 2001...
Hopefully he decides the 757 is a little old and 737MAX issues were just 'fake news'
The 737MAX is a perfectly safe plane. MCAS has been neutered, can only activate if there is not a significant discrepancy between AOA sensors, can now only engage once per flight, and is also limited in the trim adjustment it’s capable of making on that one activation.
The door plug issue was horrific, but that has also been rectified through additional checks during installation, just like any other similar issue that has cropped up over decades of flight.
Is it absurd that Boeing included systems that were unsafe on a modern airliner, and could crash a plane due to a single failure point? Absolutely. Fuck Boeing. I’ll take Airbus any day.
But there’s no reason to be afraid of flying in a 737MAX. It’s essentially just the 737NG with bigger engines, a nicer cockpit, and a few other upgrades, much like the A320neo vs the A320ceo.
Does the mcas still rely on one sensor on the front of the plane or have they learned and added one for good measure? Ye 737 max is safer now, yes. But fuck boeing for trying to cheap out and costing thousands of lives
The MCAS wasn’t an issue of cheaping out, it was an evolution of a less-dangerous system that fell through the cracks and highlighted shortcomings with the FAA’s self-approval system. It’s a long story, but the short version is because the type of system it was wasn’t considered critical it was approved for being fed by only one source of data. And in its earlier iterations for military use it was far less powerful in terms of how much stabilizer trim it could apply. As it evolved it became much more potent, and also reset every time the pilots used their trim switches, leading to disaster. Mentour Pilot has done some really good videos about it, especially his analyses of the Lion Air crash and the Ethiopian Airlines crash.
Now it receives data from multiple sources and won’t activate if they disagree profoundly. It also can only ever activate once per flight now, which means even in the event of erroneous activation the pilots can easily trim it out.
It kinda was cheaping out. They wanted to release the plane asap, but without mcas they needed to recertify the whole plane which wouldve taken time and wouldve lost them a shit ton of sales to airbus. So they faked it with mcas.
Whatever you call it, the mcas system was a whole bunch of shit piled layers layers of shit. The videos are very interesting, ye.
Thank god the data comes from multiple sensors and and it can be ignored!