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I’m at a point where I just opt for carriers with Airbus fleets. I do not trust modern day American corporations nor the oversight bodies. There are too many financial incentives to cut corners.
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It really highlights how terribly trained the pilots involved are - temporary inconsistency in measured speeds (there are still plenty of reasonable speed sources) in almost all other planes does not result in the plane crashing. Heck, my GPS can do groundspeed easily enough and you have basic pitch and power settings. How did they not notice their altitude was climbing as they pulled the plane up - they got into a C…
I'm not sure what accident you are talking about but the MCAS in the 737 Max overrode pilot input. The real problem was that pilots did not know that the MCAS existed, nor did they know how to disable it.
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I think the passenger miles statistic is baloney (calculated by multiplying the number of passengers by the number of miles travelled), and I'm a bit sick of seeing it trumpeted everywhere to claim flying is vastly safer than driving. The collective risk of everyone on board the plane is meaningless to calculating risk to your personal safety. At least for me, the fatality rate per journey, per hour of travel, or at…
Why would you care about per-journey statistics? Surely all that's demonstrating is that cars are often used for very brief, non-highway travel. When the question is of how to travel between cities or states, why do you find the relative safety of low speed non-highway driving to be relevant?
So maybe per total hour from door to door is the relevant metric: you tend to make decisions based on comparable travel times, whatever the reason for travel or mode eventually selected.
I’m at a point where I just opt for carriers with Airbus fleets. I do not trust modern day American corporations nor the oversight bodies. There are too many financial incentives to cut corners.
Which domestic US airline flies Airbus?
Just anecdotally (and I expect this doesn't hold statistically), I don't even notice a difference in manufacturer distribution between these US and EU airlines.
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>> because of aerodynamics But yes. MCAS was put in place due to concerns over aero. If that was just to avoid the need for extra pilot training then it should have been scrapped since new training will be required now anyway. But since great effort has been made to fix MCAS we can conclude that the root problem is aerodynamic. Can aerodynamic issues be compensated for with software? Sure. I need to read up on the fi…
You're completely ignoring that flying the 737 MAX without MCAS is not an automatic death sentence. Meanwhile a malfunctioning MCAS is actually an automatic death sentence. The big flaws are in the software, not in the hardware. So stop focusing on that.
Would the software even be necessary if the airframe was better designed?