Software Won’t Fix Boeing’s ‘Faulty’ Airframe
I&#x27;ve read a variety of articles on this and they often said somewhat different things. What I&#x27;ve been able to gather about the timeline of events is:<p>1. The new engines on the MAX shifted the center of gravity forward (and I assume center of lift stayed the same).<p>2. Boeing was worried that #1 would cause the plane to nose up during high angles of attack (so, take off and landing?), and added software, MCAS, to pitch up to counteract this.<p>3. There&#x27;s some confusion over when this software kicks in and how to cancel it (something about the trim controls not cancelling MCAS?)<p>4. Regardless of #3, this software seems to have confused pilots and the current belief is that MCAS was active when pilots didn&#x27;t want it active.<p>5. ????<p>6. Planes crash.<p>Also, I&#x27;ve read about some concerns about the fact that the handling behavior changed so much but the plane wasn&#x27;t reclassified as a different type. I&#x27;m still unclear about how classifications plays into this story.<p>My core point of confusion is, if MCAS is the culprit why isn&#x27;t the solution to remove MCAS? Is tendency to pitch during high angles of attack unusual, and something pilots cannot be expected to counteract manually? I&#x27;ve only played sims like DCS and X-Plane (and not very much at that) but &quot;nose goes up when I don&#x27;t want it to, so I push stick forward&quot; doesn&#x27;t seem too complicated to me. Of course, I&#x27;m no pilot so I&#x27;m probably drastically oversimplifying the situation.