Ethiopian Max Crash Simulator Scenario Stuns Pilots
I made the prediction a month ago and I’ll make it again. MCAS won’t ever fly again.<p>I think the plane will fly without MCAS with a new type rating, and where pilots specifically train on the stick feel during a power on stall.<p>They needed the 737 with new engines to fly like the old 737 in order to maintain the type rating and avoid training. Now that they obviously have lost that and require substantial training, I don’t see any reason to keep the system.<p>Some people think the plane is unflyable / inherently unstable without MCAS. I’ve only flown about 15 hours in my life, and a Cessna at that so I’m not qualified to offer an expert opinion.<p>But my intuition is that if that were true, if MCAS was not just a bandaid to maintain a type rating, but rather a safety critical system essential for flightworthiness, it would never have shipped in its current form in the first place. Or rather, the 737 MAX would not have been viable to begin with.<p>If it is the case that 737 MAX is not actually airworthy without a functioning MCAS then Boeing has fucked up an order of magnitude worse than even they appear to have at this point.