> Not necessarily fair since one didn't even know what they were up against, and the other was trusting a Boeing checklist that wasn't guaranteed to work, and only stood a realistic chance at working if the failure did not occur at a critical stage of the flight
Well, it did get them back to positive rate climb, didn't it? :P Just, dubious subsequent actions gave that back.
> This is just poppycock, if not straight up, grade A bullshit; no personal disrespect intended to you, fine sir.
Well, it is absolutely personal disrespect, and adding qualifiers amplifies rather than undoes it. A decent person should do better.
> There would have been no need to consider the skill of the pilots if due diligence and proper redundancy concomitant to the actual hazards of the design had been done, which weren't due to management's pressure to get this damn plane flying on time at any cost.
I already said MCAS is awful, kthx? At the same time, it's exposed that many air crews in developing countries don't know how to deal with trim runaway. And trim runaway happens: switches get stuck. So the other links in the failure chain should be dealt with, so that they don't conspire to bring down aircraft under other conditions.
Well, it did get them back to positive rate climb, didn't it? :P Just, dubious subsequent actions gave that back.
> This is just poppycock, if not straight up, grade A bullshit; no personal disrespect intended to you, fine sir.
Well, it is absolutely personal disrespect, and adding qualifiers amplifies rather than undoes it. A decent person should do better.
> There would have been no need to consider the skill of the pilots if due diligence and proper redundancy concomitant to the actual hazards of the design had been done, which weren't due to management's pressure to get this damn plane flying on time at any cost.
I already said MCAS is awful, kthx? At the same time, it's exposed that many air crews in developing countries don't know how to deal with trim runaway. And trim runaway happens: switches get stuck. So the other links in the failure chain should be dealt with, so that they don't conspire to bring down aircraft under other conditions.