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May 1, 2019, 9:39 pm

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Originally Posted by serfty

I work in IT myself and find this article very interesting:

How the Boeing 737 Max Disaster Looks to a Software Developer - IEEE Spectrum

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Originally Posted by FlyingUnderTheRadar

I have not read the whole thread but this article should be of interest:

https://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/...ware-developer

So apparently flying a 757 simulator and being a private pilot makes one an airplane design expert.
The piece is full of misleading comments and some downright errors. The guy's credibility is blown with such idiotic comments as implying the airplane is "dynamically unstable"; that AOA and pitch are the same thing; etc. etc. Plus implying that the DER concept is some recent innovation based upon bad intentions (it's been around since the 1940's, and I don't think FAA EVER had "armies of engineers").

True, there appear to be serious shortcomings and downright failures at Boeing in how MCAS was designed, implemented, and in the related risk assessments. But opinion pieces like this by so-called "experts" don't help the cause in investigating and fixing such failures.

Here's a link to an article that corrects many of the IEEE "article's" errors:
https://abnormaldistribution.org/ind...liner-crashes/