I've said it before and I'll say it again

[marwi_3023]

Do not fly on a Boeing aircraft.

[kopenhagen5]

That's only to do with the new 737 Max8.

And as I understand it's to do with cockpit indicators so any experienced pilots should be able to fly without these indicators.

But training unfortunately is not as good in Indonesia, Sth Americas and many Asian countries as it is in Germany, Holland, England, Scandinavia, Aus etc.

[travlyn2012]

If Boeing still has the most planes flying,

I would guess that it would also be likely that they would have more problems/crashes.

[davidc4430]

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@ecar3483 wrote:

I remember my Father gave me a Sopwith Camel for my 12th birthday...

He said, in the immortal words of the Baron Von Richthofen "May you break both your arms and legs"...

I took the plane up for a spin, and being 12 years old, and having not the first idea how to fly, I came down with a distinct thud...

And broke both my arms and legs...

My father was so overcome with pride that he wept.... It was a true bonding moment for us both... ha ha.

🙂

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YY5AFQSl-k

which one is you?

[joztamps]

Notice only one of them had the courage of his convictions and jumped off a cliff.

[marwi_3023]

Kopenhagen, looks like you were wrong with your statement there about any experienced pilot being able to cope without cockpit indicators

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-28/lion-air-report-pilots-struggled-to-control-plane-that-crashe...

[marwi_3023]

I feel sad for all those that lost their lives.
Obviously no one else here does

[ecar3483]

It's not that I wasn't saddened by their loss, it's the means by which I acknowledged their deaths.

I asked the stars to watch over them.

I sang for them a simple death - time of passing song.

Honestly, it didn't occur to me to put anything in print...

My business was with the stars, the dead, why would I include anyone else?

Silly me, not to think... ha ha.

🙂

[kopenhagen5]

That's incorrect, any experienced pilot CAN fly the aircraft without cockpit visual indicators as seen on this exact aircraft the day before the accident with a similar problem.

One crew reacted to recover correctly and the other didn't in time before the automation made the situation worse.

One of the problems in modern aviation being pilots miss many of the instinctive mechanical basics due to being taught with computer assisted features rendering their skills second rate to having split second responses in a crises situation. They are taught to fly a bus within a company budget that believes automation is king. Automation should only ever be a secondary tool to assist the pilot's skills.

[marwi_3023]

I wasn't having a go at you ecar. I know you are a good person

[marwi_3023]

Kopenhagen, I knew that you can't ever admit being wrong.