Originally Posted by
rickair7777
No that wasn't the issue. They're selling a 1960's monster of complexity to 200-hour children of the magenta line.
The FO on a 737 literally does more work on the taxi out than a bus FO does all month. He's basically doing his job plus the FE's job.
Boeing made a bad ASSumption that just because their stable of yeager-esque test pilots could fly their way out of an MCAS malfunction that everybody else in the world could too. Maybe a safe enough assumption for US legacy airlines. But not for everybody.
You could automate a lot of those subsystems and still leave the pilot with ultimate authority, that's a philosophical call, not a technical requirement. I would prefer that to the current bus model (although if you know what you're doing you can take full control of a bus by pushing a couple buttons). But I do understand and agree that SOME operators need the nerf flight envelope protections of the bus.
The Wright brothers flew at Kitty Hawk in 1903. The 737 first flew in 1967, sixty-four years later. It is now fifty-three years after that and Boeing is trying to keep the “same type” as it’s big seller? That is insane.
Just because you have a monopoly in US transport category aircraft does not mean you can keep ‘tweaking’ a design forever. Like the Wright Flyer and the DC-3, the 737 was a great state of the art aircraft at one time. That time, however, was 30 years ago.