By all accounts will be real test flights with the new software to be implemented as early as this week, according to the newspaper Seattle Times.
the Data will at the same time as China’s leader Xi Jinping during a state visit in France concluded an agreement which means that China buys 300 French Airbus, of which 290 are of the model, the A320, archrival to Boeing model 737 Max to be removed from circulation worldwide.
Airbus is the new agreement with China worth the equivalent of 320 billion. For Boeing it is a hard blow.
But the company’s efforts are now becoming clear. It happens when it is pressed from many quarters – and then the Indonesian national airline Garuda recently announced that it wants to cancel the purchase of the 49 aircraft of the model of the 737 Max 8.
with a new piece of software to control system MCAS since november. Then, it was, in hindsight, the system looked to have överreagerat and caused the accident on a flight with the company of Lion Air in Indonesia in October.
After the crash in Ethiopia on march 10, which is also suspected to have been due to flaws in the same system, the situation became for the Boeing emergency to save the trust.
last Saturday, collected by the airlines and the safety officers to a briefing in the state of Washington in the northwestern united states to explain in detail the changes made in an update of the software.
A person with knowledge of the weekend’s information session describing it for the Seattle Times, which is very convenient. Pilots from the airlines did try a Max in the simulator with the new software. Afterwards, they were asked to give their views.
A pilot on a u.s. airline, said, according to the newspaper, that he was ”very pleased with what he had so far seen of the changed software”.
real flights in order to begin the process to get the new software certified.
According to a spokesman for the aircraft manufacturer will the updated version of the control system do not cost the airlines anything. It will be offered as soon as it has been approved by the u.s. aviation authority FAA.
another change will be that the control system will be activated so that the measuring values from both the so-called anfallsvinkelgivarna (which measures the angle between the wings and the air currents), rather than just one. Two such donors will continue to be at no extra cost included in the Max-model equipment. With two sensors given the pilot more reliable measurements.
the Changes hope Boeing will lead to that the control system not to be triggered several times in a row with the nose-down movements as a result. Most likely, this movement on the planet also be limited so that it does not become as heated as before.
However, it is unclear when the updates in the control system can be approved and 737 Max model to be returned to traffic. Changes must be made both in the manuals and in the training of pilots.
that will be closely examined in the near future. It will also affect the us aviation authority, FAA.
the Disclosure that the authority has delegated a large part of the evaluation of certain areas on the 737 Max that Boeing itself has received substantial criticism.
the Matter will now be investigated by the US department of transportation, which announced that a special committee be created to examine the FAA’s approach in the certification of new aircraft, including the Boeing 737 Max.
currently, Boeing is much of the safety evaluation on their own and then send the documents forward for review by the FAA.
cultivated contacts with power in Washington. The company reported in last year have spent over the equivalent of sek 130 million on lobbying with the politicians in the congress, with the authorities and the caa.
Boeing ceo Dennis Muilenburg is a good friend of Donald Trump. The company donated a million dollars to the president’s installation ceremony and has received several favourable contracts during Trump’s time as president.
