Posted on 03/13/2019 2:50:42 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
(CNN)US pilots who fly the Boeing 737 Max have registered complaints about the way the jet has performed in flight, according to a federal database accessed by CNN.
In one of the complaints, a captain reported an autopilot anomaly which led to a brief nose-down situation -- where the front of the aircraft pointed down, according to the federal database. In another complaint, a first officer reported that the aircraft pitched nose down after the autopilot was engaged during departure. The autopilot was then disconnected and flight continued to its destination, according to the database.
lthough the data doesn't identify the pilots or their airlines, two US carriers fly the 737 Max 8: American Airlines and Southwest.
Extraordinary worldwide attention has been focused on the jet -- Boeing's biggest-selling airliner -- after Sunday's crash of a new Ethiopian Airlines 737 Max 8, minutes after takeoff from Addis Abba, which killed all 157 people on board. Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 was the second deadly crash of the same new plane type within five months. The crash of Lion Air Flight 610 shortly after takeoff from Jakarta last October killed all 189 people on board.
It's very early in the investigation of the Ethiopian Airlines crash and information from the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder, which have been recovered from the crash site, has not yet been analyzed. Because of that, it's too soon to know if direct evidence exists linking the two plane crashes. On Tuesday, Ethiopian Airlines' CEO Tewolde GebreMariam told CNN's Richard Quest the pilot said he "had flight control problems" immediately before the 737 Max 8 crashed Sunday.
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There are few things more amusing than a group of people talking about something they don’t actually know anything about.
Thank you.
Read my post, I didn’t say otherwise.
Agreed, MCAS doesn’t operate when the autopilot is engaged.
My point, is to fly the plane manually, can’t do that on autopilot.
The problem could be a failed AOA. If manual control doesn’t correct, THEN, the ultimate solution is to turn off the STAB trim cutout switches as I stated.
That directly disconnects the power to the stabilizer auto trim motors.
You’re very welcome, but I don’t play.
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