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12-08-2015, 07:30 PM

TurbineDriver

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737 MAX Cockpit

Anybody know if the new MAX has an updated cockpit?(specifically the outdated overhead panel?!)

12-08-2015, 07:36 PM

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Anybody know if the new MAX has an updated cockpit?(specifically the outdated overhead panel?!)

My wife is a flight test engineer on it and I got to see it. The overhead panel is unchanged. The main panel has the same display screens as the 787 but it's really the same information the NGs have displayed on bigger screens. The flap gauge is digital and displayed in the exact format of the old gauge on the center display. The center pedestal is the same except the changed the start levers to the knobs the later model Boeings have that light up with an engine fire. Really no other changes. Boeing wants to do everything they can to improve but the FAA won't let them do any more without changing the type rating.

12-08-2015, 07:38 PM

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Anybody know if the new MAX has an updated cockpit?(specifically the outdated overhead panel?!)

My sources say..............*ell no!

12-08-2015, 07:39 PM

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Boeing wants to do everything they can to improve but the FAA won't let them do any more without changing the type rating.

And yet the 777/787 are a common type.

12-08-2015, 07:54 PM

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The 737 is a steaming pile of crap. Now that pile of crap has new engines. Boeing should have started with a clean sheet.

12-08-2015, 08:48 PM

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What about the seats in the cockpit? Any intel?

12-08-2015, 08:51 PM

Seggy

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Boeing wants to do everything they can to improve but the FAA won't let them do any more without changing the type rating.

Come on now...is it really the FAA? Or is it that Boeing doesn't want to make the customers mad with a redesign and those costs, pilots be damned...

12-08-2015, 09:04 PM

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I heard it's all there prime customer's demand i.e. SW (same type)

too bad it would be a nice plane with some sort of ECAM installed

12-08-2015, 09:29 PM

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What about the seats in the cockpit? Any intel?

Nothing specific. I hope it's better than the current production airplanes. Just flew a -900ER on it's first revenue flight on a transcon and my back hurt when we landed.

12-08-2015, 09:31 PM

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Come on now...is it really the FAA? Or is it that Boeing doesn't want to make the customers mad with a redesign and those costs, pilots be damned...

Well it's a combination. Boeing wants to keep the customers happy by keeping it the same type (like someone else mentioned, the big customers really pushed for that), and the FAA says if you want it to be the same type, you cant change this and that.