> because they did not want to inundate new pilots with too much information about the plane and it's attendant safety systems
They didn’t want to require pilots to simulate for the plane. That was a big selling point. MCAS is a big enough change that it probably should have required training. (Not sure where on the fuck-up go fraud spectrum this falls, though.)
Adding MCAS didn’t change the symptoms / responses matrix. It’s mailfunction is the same as runaway trim and responses are the same (turn it off). This was a fair engineering decision to do not requir retraining for this.
They didn’t want to require pilots to simulate for the plane. That was a big selling point. MCAS is a big enough change that it probably should have required training. (Not sure where on the fuck-up go fraud spectrum this falls, though.)