2019-03-19 | Boeing big cheese repeats pledge of 737 Max software updates following fatal crashes • The Register
'Boeing chief exec Dennis Muilenberg has repeated earlier promises that a software update for the troubled Boeing 737 Max airliners is coming "soon". '
' Some pilots have alleged that original training courses on the 737 Max glossed over what MCAS was and how it worked. '
'This is broadly what Boeing did when it put much larger engines on the 737 Max: it tried to compensate for the handling changes with software. '
'Muilenberg continued: "Soon we'll release a software update and related pilot training for the 737 MAX that will address concerns discovered in the aftermath of the Lion Air Flight 610 accident."'
'In an open letter published last night Muilenberg acknowledged the "shared grief for all those in mourning" after the separate crashes of two 737 Max 8s within a few months - Ethiopian Airlines flight 302 and Lion Air flight 610. '
[–] jesus_is_lord ago
Trim is basically balancing an aircraft. When it's correctly trimmed, an aeroplane will fly straight and level without the pilot needing to constantly hold the controls and keep it there.
straight and level, big cheese, on the flat earth;
[–] 17518125? [S] ago
DevOps software cycle, trial by error. If something crashes then they will fix it in the next update;