Good one, now you get the joke.

Exactly. Everyone gets nukes and shoulder-launched RPGs. That’s basically in the Bill of Rights, duh.

I don’t want to give up my rights. I’m cool with everyone who wants to owning a nice three-rounds-per-minute muzzle-loaded flintlock, just like our Founding Fathers intended.

When he wasn’t naked, he was dipping constantly.

Tell this to my fitbit.

They wouldn’t need more than 2. Just have the MCAS programmed to disengage when the 2 independent AOAs disagree. And give the pilots a caution light so they can let maintenance know.

Stalls can happen at any airspeed, and are solely dependent on AOA. Admittedly they do most typically happen at slow speeds.

This is not true. Flipping two switches would have fixed the problem. The problem was that in normal trim runaway in a normal 737, opposite pressure on the yoke is supposed to cutout the trim. If that doesn’t work, the trim cutout switches will. The MCAS doesn’t respond to yoke input because it already thinks the…

They determined a warning wasn’t enough. The MAX is very unstable at high angles of attack compared to other 737s, because of the differences in aerodynamics due to larger, further forward engines. If a pilot is hand flying and has gotten themselves into a situation with a dangerously high angle of attack, the MAX’s…

Exactly. If anything it looks like the MCAS worked like a charm with bad data. Garbage in, garbage out.

It isn’t that insane. The MCAS was added for one reason only (a good reason), and does only one thing. And it is able to cut out. Boeing made a big mistake in not sharing that info with the pilots, though there has always been an existing procedure that would have cut out the MCAS. Boeing probably made another mistake…

In fairness to Boeing the MCAS works by trimming nose down. When trimming is occurring in a 737 (whether by a pilot via the electric trim switch on the yoke, or by MCAS), two very large and impossible-not-to-notice trim wheels immediately next to each pilot’s inboard knee start spinning. If the trim wheels are…

Wrong. Some fleets, like AA, have AOA indicators. Southwest is in the process of installing them.

I’m aware of the seriousness of the issue. I fly a MAX for a living and take these issues more seriously than you know. It is just the sensationalism and hyperbole that gets to me. You’re right, not all 350 of those MAXs were flying the whole year, though 3000 flight hours per year per plane is pretty average, so…

.6% of them have crashed, but not in .6% of MAX flights. 2 crashes in probably over 500,000 MAX flights in the last year. Obviously these crashes are tragic and everything should be done to understand them and avoid them in the future. But the only reason that 2 crashes in that many flights is considered a bad safety…

I mean, there are probably more appropriate things in the world to be sad about..

I think the jaguar handled this security breach very professionally. There could have been some eating involved.

Actually it depends what’s in the dumpster.

Did you not read the article? Drew pointed out that they are are a big corporation, owned by some private equity chud. They are large, they get taken somewhat seriously by the rest of the media because they are large, and yet they still act like a bunch of racist moron trolls in a basement, and probably lack the…

Yeah, I don’t get it either. And I’m partially in their target demographic, being a white guy sports fan roughly Portnoy’s age. I guess it is because I go through life not trying to be complete shitstain.