Originally Posted by
Tafflyer
As well as being an avid traveller I am also a licensed pilot (CPL) with instrument and multi-engine ratings.That makes me fastidious about safety and will not fly in any aircraft that I do not have complete faith in, regardless of who's flying it. Boeing may well have fixed this issue but the serious chain of errors and deception that have gone on have destroyed trust in their product. This can perhaps be regained by many further years of incident-free flying and improved new frames coming to market. However, until that point, you will not find me setting foot on a Max.
I agree 100%. The thing always in my mind is the MCAS was reliant on a
single sensor that if faulty, would fool the system into thinking the plane was stalling and repeatedly point the nose at the ground. Coupled with this, Boeing did not initially even inform the pilots this system even existed, therefore it's failure mode, consequences and recovery was not part of the Training.
This is truly mind boggling...that it was even thought that a system with such catastrophic consequences could rely on just a single sensor. Coming so soon after the 787 forced grounding after their infamous exploding batteries fiasco.