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Musterseed:
Hello family,
I heard Boing did a survey to see if people would be willing to fly on their new revised airplanes.

They said 40% said they would.    Would you? 😃


In Christ
Pamela

Wanda:
A couple of things come to mind.

1) Considering Boing conducted the survey should I  trust the results? 
2) My mom used to say, "if everyone else is jumping off a cliff should you jump too"?🤔

indianabob:
Hello friends,

I understand that the questionable aircraft was doing just fine in Nations where the pilots knew how to override the
computer when the plane took a nose dive. Of course that limitation was not a good or proper, but both planes
that crashed were operated by companies having training problems and pilots that admittedly were lacking in training for the new aircraft.
It is somewhat like calling Uber for a taxi ride. You never know who your driver will be.
So my response is that I would fly within the United States and Canada.

Old Indiana Bob

Doug:
At one time use to do a lot of air travel and was totally relaxed, the safety record is excellent. Like Bob said had the pilots of the planes that crashed done what any competent pilot would do and disconnect autopilot and fly the plane all would have been fine. Boeing will be heavily inspected before these planes are allowed to fly. Actually in this country I too would have no hesitation getting even on the grounded planes.

Wanda:
Before the Lion Air crash, Boeing and regulators agreed that pilots didn’t need to be alerted to the new system, and training was minimal.  Here in the US pilots only got a 2 hour video tutorial on the Max, even though they requested flight simulator training because they didn't feel confident. They were met with opposition and  reprimanded.  As a result They  lost scheduled flights, and the pay that goes with it. In addition they were denied that neccessary training. Even now, few airlines have Max simulators ready for training.

I've discussed this with my son, who is a pilot and also an avionics safety manager, who worked for Lockheed for several years. He said until this situation is adequately resolved he wouldn't feel confident with anyone he loves flying in one of these jets, unless he personally knew the pilot had adequate simulator training.

When I think of rapidly free falling thousands of feet to my certain death,  because a pilot was denied adequate training, It concerns me. And when a pilot doesn't feel confident in his ability to keep me safe, that's even more concerning.

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