Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward 21365 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Dec 2009
Yes because it was his job to tell the FAA.
He is not a test pilot in the "Right Stuff" sense - it's just a macho title for the job of signing off on the training requirements.
The engineers made the changes on the assumption that the effects of these would be made known to the pilots in a way that they could use them safely. Boeing decided there were business reasons for not doing that.
>If someone at the FAA had made the effort to check the design of the flight control system,
That's not really how regulated industries work.
If the FAA had to check every line of code in Boeing's systems they would need more programmers than Boeing with more experience of the Boeing software design than Boeing itself. At this point why not just have the FAA design all aircraft ?
If the FAA don't trust Boeing's design, can they trust Boeing's manufacturing? Do they have to have an FAA inspector standing next to each Boeing machinist watching what they are doing? Does this extend down the supply chain to all subcontractors? Does the FAA have to have a guy in the mine watching somebody dig out the bauxite?
The point of ISO9001 and ISO13485 and ISO all-the-bloody-rest, is that you say what you are going to do and you do it in the way you said. At some point the regulators have to trust you.
It's the same reason you have traffic laws rather than a cop sitting next to every driver.
No this is worse.
You could argue that the Pinto's fuel tank needed more protection - but you can always add more protection, more airbags, more safety features etc etc.
This is like having a hot exhaust pipe going through the middle of the fuel tank and then solving this by having an accelerator pedal that stops working if it gets too hot. And a single temperature sensor and not telling the driver.
With aviation I think it got even worse.
The NTSB were created because the FAA's remit was to promote air travel AND enforce safety - so every safety issue had to be resolved in a way that didn't harm the perception of air safety, ie. it was always the dead pilot's fault
Then there was a claim that post 9/11 the was an attitude that any criticism of Boeing was unpatriotic because B52s were vital in the war on terror.
Before everyone leaps in about "blaming some poor engineer" - he sent emails/texts bragging about how he had tricked the FDA by fixing simulator tests.
Career advice for prospective BOFH: whether you're rigging LIBOR or denying the existence of MCAS - don't leave an email trail.
The problem is that postal address to GPS (ie WGS84) coordinates is unreliable or expensive and done by the brilliant IT dept of a national post service.
What3words would presumably ask you to find your own address and at least check it's vaguely correct on the map. Rather than entering 100West 100Ave, precise name of local municipality rather than name of city.
Some sort of deal between Intel and Microsoft to screw over AMD? inconceivable !
Doesn't change the fact that only 5% of the Li-Ion ones are recycled.
The problem is that it's very expensive to take apart a 1000 different size and shaped custom batteries embedded inside smartphones or power tool battery packs. Each of which contain miniscule amounts of useful material amdi all the plastic packaging.
Recycling standard already separated 18650 cells might be easier - and automatable - but isn't going to be worthwhile economically unless there is recycling fee.
Remanufacturing existing Tesla battery packs might be worth it - especialy if the price of raw materials is going up.
>Perhaps there'll be a glut of them on the market and the price might come down a little?
My web browsing laptops are all $99 used chromebooks running GalliumOS (ie Linux+XFCE)
Make sure you buy 4Gb ram, but 16Gb SSD is enough
The Lenovo ones are mostly child proof = totally indestructible
It gets even crazier in the land of the treasonous colonials
Students aren't allowed to be paid for performing in multi-million$ college sports because they are poor and black it would spoil the pure sporting ethos.
They aren't even allowed to be paid when the league licenses their likeness for video games.
But many of them have tattoos, and the tattoo artists claimed that they held the copyright for those tattoos - so they are paid when a student appears in the EA college sportball video game
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