Originally Posted by
WHACKMASTER
Ran into a Fed today who’s working directly on getting the MAX back into the air. Straight from his mouth:
- AA, SWA, & UAL have had a chance to fly the MAX sim in MIA with the new software installed. All three airlines are content with it.
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Oh yeah. The sim (a big computer game), works the way the stakeholders want it to, just like before. I’m comfortable with that :rolleyes
Remember the MD80 max flap takeoff procedure developed after the LGA accident? 23 flaps for all takeoffs when the runway is contaminated. Except a heavy 2 engine jet with max flaps on one engine is a pig, at best.
Being dubious about the prospect of surviving a V1 cut at heavy weight with 23 flaps at sea level, I tried 4 in the sim. Crashed every time. When this was reported to flight ops, they panicked. “Oh the sim is just programmed wrong”. We fixed it now...it works.
“Uh, did you get the Steve Canyon crews to do flight testing on that”? Naw, it’s all extrapolated data.
“Oh, does that mean all the PC’s for the last year are invalid”?
More panic... then uh,...no, because we didn’t do any flap23 engine outs.....
Quietly, reversed policy a few months later and put the corner of the rug back.