Originally Posted by
Texasbound
So, if a Fire Warning goes off when taking off at 120 knots and there are any other lights or alarms go off you are just going to hack the clock and wait for more than 10 seconds to do anything? No, you will immediately react, because that is what you were trained to do. Pilots should be trained to deal with emergencies. Even complicated ones, 10 seconds is an eternity. Even after 10 seconds with the MCAS trim runaways the main electric pitch trim switches still worked and would override MCAS. Yeah, then it would run again, but trim it back out... that is what the Captain in the Lion Air crash did, several times. If the FO had done the same the crash would not have happened. In the Ethiopian crash if either pilot had used the main electric trim for more than 2 seconds they would have been fine as well. The whole reason pilots ALPA want 2 trained pilots sitting in the front, is to fly the plane when it is broken. That is our job.
Love how people praise AB for devaluing our job as pilots. We will just build an airplane that does everything for you and will give you a tray table so you have something to do. However, last I checked, pilots have still figured out how to crash AB aircraft.
well I hope you (or any of us) are never in a position to find out. Either way, Boeing should never need pilots to compensate for a design flaw.