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FAA demands that Boeing flight manuals give more detail on pilot emergency procedures
Boeing, under intensifying regulatory scrutiny after the fatal MAX crashes, has been directed by the Federal Aviation Administration to rework its flight manuals for both the 777X and MAX 10 to include detailed emergency pilot procedures. (www.seattletimes.com) 更多...
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I think the point is that more crew training is the answer. Having procedures in place in the AFM is fine, but it is the crew that knows those procedures that will save you, not a crew that needs to read them.
But 'training is expensive' is a mantra in many business and industries. I owned a company that serviced IT assets in corporate environments, and too many of those corporations refused to send their employees to vendor training, seeing it as a 'waste of money'.
Boeing's denial of the differences in the MAX was likely a play for the industry to not require them to have to have to spend more money for training, and how much do you train, and the idea that requiring more training for essentially a 'model update' would likely raise questions about what the changes are, and should the plane be classified as a more radical change, and require more testing and verification, a VERY expensive problem for Boeing, who hoped that a 'fast and cheap' redesign of the 737 would save their investors, and their own jobs. I'm sure that someone in the bowels of Boeing knew that if the problems with the MAX came out, the push to cancel it, and spend millions to design it to fly without the bandaid, would grow and cost Boeing their future.
Boeing's denial of the differences in the MAX was likely a play for the industry to not require them to have to have to spend more money for training, and how much do you train, and the idea that requiring more training for essentially a 'model update' would likely raise questions about what the changes are, and should the plane be classified as a more radical change, and require more testing and verification, a VERY expensive problem for Boeing, who hoped that a 'fast and cheap' redesign of the 737 would save their investors, and their own jobs. I'm sure that someone in the bowels of Boeing knew that if the problems with the MAX came out, the push to cancel it, and spend millions to design it to fly without the bandaid, would grow and cost Boeing their future.
It's now widely known that the primary motivation for the appalling MCAS design was specifically Boeing's contract terms with Southwest for the MAX. There's evidently a $1 million per aircraft rebate that goes back to Southwest if pilots require any retraining.
In an amazing irony, pilots at various regulatory agencies throughout the world who've flown the MAX since the grounding have suggested that MCAS was not needed anyway, the aircraft's handling characteristics with the new engines are not significantly different than the NG.
The fear of triggering the Southwest rebate so infected and percolated through Boeing management (including their test pilots) that it created a kind of tunnel vision, group-think mentality.
In an amazing irony, pilots at various regulatory agencies throughout the world who've flown the MAX since the grounding have suggested that MCAS was not needed anyway, the aircraft's handling characteristics with the new engines are not significantly different than the NG.
The fear of triggering the Southwest rebate so infected and percolated through Boeing management (including their test pilots) that it created a kind of tunnel vision, group-think mentality.
I can see it now! Having trouble flying the aircraft Skipper? Wait till I get that 8 pound 600 page flight manual that tells me what I have to do. Memory QRH items, what are they? That Quickly Read Handbook that causes one to shut down the remaining operating engine? How about we start with both pilot's requiring Type ratings, 100 hours of line indoctrination and a final loft ride before being let loose? I mean we’re only talking hundreds of lives here!
All while doing -4000fpm....
What exactly is your point?
You are some kind of... Something...
The 'manual' is on a tablet, and can be searched for what issue you are experiencing.
Any why not require more training, and experience? It's too expensive! The previous administrations previous administration passed a requirement for more training for new pilots to be 'captains, and the next administration undid most of it. That's the problem in America. We don't have thinking adults that can rationalize, and realize what their decisions bring, so they come in, are ruthlessly pro-business, and tear down everything that the previous administration(s) did to ensure public safety, because what was public safety was there int he Wild Wild West? You had a bigger gun, or you died.
I'm wondering, now, with the dire need for more pilots, if there will be promotions and hires of pilots that shouldn't even be hauling cargo, and they will find themselves in the cockpit of a passenger carrier, and auger it into the ground because of inexperience. Oops...
Training is too expensive...
The 'manual' is on a tablet, and can be searched for what issue you are experiencing.
Any why not require more training, and experience? It's too expensive! The previous administrations previous administration passed a requirement for more training for new pilots to be 'captains, and the next administration undid most of it. That's the problem in America. We don't have thinking adults that can rationalize, and realize what their decisions bring, so they come in, are ruthlessly pro-business, and tear down everything that the previous administration(s) did to ensure public safety, because what was public safety was there int he Wild Wild West? You had a bigger gun, or you died.
I'm wondering, now, with the dire need for more pilots, if there will be promotions and hires of pilots that shouldn't even be hauling cargo, and they will find themselves in the cockpit of a passenger carrier, and auger it into the ground because of inexperience. Oops...
Training is too expensive...
