{"id":177082,"date":"2020-01-02T19:27:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-03T00:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/01\/02\/ive-heard-about-getting-back-on-the-horse-but-this-is-ridiculous\/"},"modified":"2020-01-02T19:27:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T00:27:00","slug":"ive-heard-about-getting-back-on-the-horse-but-this-is-ridiculous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/01\/02\/ive-heard-about-getting-back-on-the-horse-but-this-is-ridiculous\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve Heard about Getting Back on the Horse, but This Is Ridiculous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that the Boeing&#8217;s failure to properly implement automation on the 737 MAX, to the tune of 346 dead passengers, has led the Seattle (Chicago) aviation giant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/max-crashes-strengthen-resolve-of-boeing-to-automate-flight-11577816304\">double down on automation in its airliners<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s clear that Boeing has neither the skill set nor the corporate culture to properly implement flight control automation, but they want to get rid of the pilots.<\/p>\n<p>To quote Nietzsche, &#8220;It is like the bite of a dog into a stone, it is a stupidity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Boeing Co. is increasingly committed to transferring more control of aircraft from pilots to computers after two crashes exposed flaws in an automated system on its 737 MAX that overpowered aviators in the disasters. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Executives at Boeing and other makers of planes and cockpit-automation systems for some time have believed more-sophisticated systems are necessary to serve as backstops for pilots, help them assimilate information and, in some cases, provide immediate responses to imminent hazards. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Now, such changes also seek to address the fact that average pilots may not react to problems\u2014including those tied to automation\u2014as quickly or proficiently as designers traditionally assumed, according to former and current Boeing officials and industry executives. The view took hold after a flight-control system known as MCAS put two MAX jets into<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-four-second-catastrophe-how-boeing-doomed-the-737-max-11565966629?mod=article_inline\"> fatal nosedives<\/a> within the past 14 months that together killed 346 people. \u201cWe are going to have to ultimately almost\u2014almost\u2014make these planes fly on their own,\u201d then Boeing Chairman Dave Calhoun said in a CNBC interview in November. Mr. Calhoun <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/boeing-names-david-l-calhoun-to-replace-dennis-muilenburg-as-ceo-11577110365?mod=article_inline\">will become the plane maker\u2019s chief executive<\/a> Jan. 13.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The first rule of being in a hole is to stop digging, something which completely escapes the&nbsp; finance types now running the company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that the Boeing&#8217;s failure to properly implement automation on the 737 MAX, to the tune of 346 dead passengers, has led the Seattle (Chicago) aviation giant double down on automation in its airliners. It&#8217;s clear that Boeing has neither the skill set nor the corporate culture to properly implement flight control automation, but &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[384,365,416,406,382],"class_list":["post-177082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-aviation","tag-business","tag-culture","tag-stupid","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177082"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}