Comment by russdill
1 day ago
If you read through the boeing procedures, if an engine fails just after take off you delay cutting throttle or hitting the cutoff until you have positive climb and pass a certain altitude. Specifically because a mistake here would be so incredibly catastrophic. The following number of steps and verbal cross checks for then shutting down the engine are quite daunting. Not something applicable here, but still interesting to learn about
That’s absolutely applicable here. It means that an engine cutoff shouldn’t be allowed at all during certain parts of flight. It’s not crazy to think that a design fix would be to prevent those engagements during certain parts of takeoff (a certain window). It’s fly by wire anyway so it could presumably be done programmatically.
MCAS was basically made to prevent user input that would send the plane into a dangerous angle. The computer overrode the inputs. So there’s precedent for something like it.
Do you mean the MCAS System that sent two planeloads of people to their deaths?
That MCAS system?
> The computer overrode the inputs.
This is incorrect. The manual stabilizer trim thumb switches override MCAS.
Are we not in agreement? MCAS overrode the inputs and the thumb switches could override MCAS?
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This is such a funny comment. Of course you have no clue why it is funny. But that makes it all the more funny. Eventually you'll figure it out though.