Do you fly the 737 Max?
![[Post New]](/jforum/templates/default/images/icon_minipost_new.gif){kind=icon}
Anonymous
| I never pick this plane when I see it on the roster, am I crazy? Does it matter to you when you see it listed? |
Anonymous
| Of course not. That thing crashed on the regular. I am not a bloody idiot. |
Anonymous
| What if you have no choice? |
Anonymous
| Of course people fly on it. |
Anonymous
| Surely they have fixed the problems by now. |
Anonymous
| Think nothing of it. They’ve fixed it |
Anonymous
|
Absolutely. It has a great cabin design, I love the little details. It helps that I can think critically and I didnt “do my own research” via Netflix.
|
Anonymous
| Flown on the Max many times. At first was a little nervous, but now think nothing of it. Domestically, i think pilots at the U.S. airlines are some of the best. I’m not saying the pilots overseas on the two Max plane crashes were at fault- Boeing blames the pilots and the two airlines that crashed, blame Boeing engineers, but if anything the Max is probably one of the safest planes flying due to the two tragedies of the planes that crashed. |
Anonymous
| If you fly Southwest regularly, you've flown on the max most likely. About 1/4 of their fleet is the max and they use their 737 variants interchangably. |
Anonymous
|
No I would not voluntarily get on the Max. It’s not just the MCAS software— that, they’ve fixed. It’s a flawed plane design. They took a tried and true airframe (737) and then put large efficient engines that are too far forward for stability.which is why they installed the MCAS software to compensate.
Then there were the Boeing internal chats that were part of that investigation or something — the employees were saying they wouldn’t have their family on it. I’m sure it’s fine enough now. but, it’s a structurally flawed design. No thanks. https://www.forbes.com/sites/petercohan/2019/04/02/mit-expert-highlights-divergent-condition-caused-by-737-max-engine-placement/amp/ |
Anonymous
are there many situations where you would have no choice? I guess if your city got attacked and it was the one flight out then maybe. |
Anonymous
| DH flew on Ethiopian Airlines last month and his plane was a 737 Max. |
Anonymous
| No. The engines don’t fit the plane so the pilots literally cannot determine how to fly the plane in certain circumstances so you are betting the software works. Approved by the same regulators that approved the engines. Any new orders for the 737 Max? I don’t actually know but the market for brand new planes is pretty sophisticated… |
Anonymous
Are you joking? Boeing has a massive order book for the 737 Max. They have had 1500 net orders in the last 3 years. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Boeing_737_MAX_orders_and_deliveries I love how people think they are aeronautical engineers here. |
Anonymous
| Nope. Not a pilot, so I don't fly anything. |