More MAX changes?

"Just Jeepin'" (macintux) 08/03/2020 at 17:20 • Filed to: Planelopnik

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The good news is that the FAA:

has preliminarily determined that Boeing’s proposed changes to the 737 MAX design, flightcrew procedures and maintenance procedures effectively mitigate the airplane-related safety issues 

Can’t help but think that the pandemic was good timing for the MAX, anyway. Keeps it out of the spotlight and gives Boeing time to work things out .

For Sweden > Just Jeepin' 08/03/2020 at 17:27

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Of course Reuters doesn’t link to the NPRM for the proposed AD.

https://www.faa.gov/news/media/attachments/19_035n-R3-8-3-20.pdf

The four proposed changes are

Updated control laws in t he flight control software

Having the main display include an AOA disagree alert graphic

Revisiting flight manual operating procedures

Re-routing horizontal stabilizer trim wires

This is all completely sensible.  Though I am happy I’m not the guy trying to teach the 16-bit flight control computer new tricks.

ttyymmnn > Just Jeepin' 08/03/2020 at 17:37

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I’m not sure that it’s anything new, just an official announcement of what they’ve been looking at all along. And I’m pretty sure that No. 2, the AOA disagree warning, was always part of the design, but Boeing had made it an option.  I think the wiring was an issue that was discovered during the analysis, which is good, since they may have nipped something in the bud. At the end of the day, though, the ADs are the result of rigorous oversight that should have taken place all along, and not after so many people died.

This is what we'll show whenever you publish anything on Kinja: > Just Jeepin' 08/03/2020 at 17:45

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Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > Just Jeepin' 08/03/2020 at 17:53

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Since my emplo yer will not allow commercial air travel at the moment I guess I’ll fuel up my ultra lite and hit the road.

pip bip - choose Corrour > Just Jeepin' 08/04/2020 at 04:00

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good in some ways, but bad in other ways.

who’s going to want to fly after all this is over?

and how long till the coronavirus is over?

Just Jeepin' > pip bip - choose Corrour 08/04/2020 at 07:25

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Questions the whole world would love to have an answer for. Scary to think it may never be over.

pip bip - choose Corrour > Just Jeepin' 08/04/2020 at 07:30

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it is scary that it may never be over.