[conspire] Added carrier scrutiny

Tue Apr 9 00:05:10 PDT 2019

Oh, I forgot, Ralph Naders neice was killed in the Ethiopian Air crash.
He went off on Boeing a couple days ago.
Hes pretty much lost his power, but it would be fun to watch him take a
bite out of Boeing.

On Mon, Apr 8, 2019 at 11:56 PM Texx <texxgadget at gmail.com> wrote:

> So the latest on this caper is that it seems there was an official Boeng
> solution when the pilot was in a fight with the MACS.
> If you couldnt do anything else, you pull the fuse on the jack screws on
> the rear elevator plane.
> This basically disables the MACS.
> It turns out thats exactly what Etheopean Air did.
> Of course this now gives you a dead tail.
> So the crew did exactly what Boeing told pilots to do and the plane STILL
> crashed.
>
> It time to fly each and everyone of those flying coffins back to Boeing
> field, and lets make sure Ellwell is on every one of those flights, just in
> case we have another crash.
>
> What could go wrong?
>
> On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 10:16 PM Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:
>
>> I wrote:
>>
>> > And who's in charge of the FAA?  The Toddler, presumably in order to
>> > sidestep Senate confirmation, has declined to appoint an FAA
>> > Administrator, and instead appointed a buddy, Daniel K. Elwell, to be
>> > FAA Deputy Administrator and then Acting Administrator.  He's best
>> > known for having been head of the airline industry lobby [...].
>>
>> The Toddler's lackey Mr. Elwell is a friendly guy!
>>
>>
>> https://www.propublica.org/article/dan-elwell-current-faa-chief-coordinated-with-ex-lobbyist-colleagues-on-policy
>>
>>    “Happy to Do It”: Emails Show Current FAA Chief Coordinated With
>>    Ex-Lobbyist Colleagues on Policy
>>    by Derek Kravitz for ProPublica and Jack Gillum, ProPublica March 27,
>>    1:12 p.m. EDT
>>
>>    [lots of examples of cozy shmoozing snipped]
>>
>>    Political appointees typically aren’t allowed to participate in
>>    issues that involve their former employer or clients they have worked
>>    for, as part of President Donald Trump’s ethics rules.  But the rules
>> did
>>    not apply to Elwell during his first few months at the FAA when he
>>    worked on the deregulatory team.
>>
>>    He had been classified as a kind of government consultant — a
>>    “special-government employee” — who isn’t bound by the ethics rules.
>>
>> That's one way to deal with ethics problems:  Define ethics to be
>> inapplicable.
>>
>>    Elwell’s designation as a special-government employee also allowed
>>    him to continue his private consulting business even as he worked for
>>    the government.
>>    [...]
>>    What is clear is that Elwell continued strategizing with his former
>>    lobbyist colleagues even after he was no longer a special-government
>>    employee and rose up to the top ranks of the agency.
>>
>>    Elwell was named the FAA’s deputy administrator in June 2017. A month
>>    later, Pinkerton emailed Elwell, asking him to “weigh in on directly”
>> on
>>    compliance issues contained in the FAA’s five-year funding bill.
>>
>>    Elwell wrote back that he would be “Happy to do it,” and he asked a
>>    subordinate to help “set it up.”
>>
>> Who's paying Elwell's rent?
>>
>>   Elwell’s federal financial disclosure list his earnings at his
>>   consulting firm as $282,500 in 2016 and 2017 combined.  It’s not clear
>>   who paid him.  His federal financial disclosure forms do not identify
>>   individual clients, though doing so is required by law.
>>
>> You're not cleared for that information, Friend Citizen.
>>
>>   After Elwell arrived back at the FAA under Trump, his wide-ranging
>>   email discussions with industry players included a push by lobbyists to
>>   intervene in government research.
>>
>> What could possibly go wrong?
>>
>>
>>
>> Meantime, Boeing has good news that will certainly reassure everyone:
>> There's basically nothing wrong!  See, it was all a bad dream.
>>
>> https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/03/27/global-aviation-industry-converges-renton-wash-boeing-details-max-software-fix/
>>
>> Today, Boeing VP of Engineering Mike Sinnett, chief project engineer for
>> the 737 program, briefed industry industy insiders and observers at a
>> Boeing office near the Renton, WA assembly plant.  He says all that's
>> needed is additional training for 737 MAX pilots (to consist of an
>> additional 15-minute computer-based course), adding the previously
>> detailed 'disagree light', patching the firmware, and restoring the
>> norm that applied for the previous 50 years of 737 operation where doing
>> a 'yoke jerk' -- where a hard pull on the controls always disabled all
>> automated assists.  The 'yoke jerk' functionality was quietly disabled
>> with the 737 MAX introduction in 2017, but pilots weren't informed of
>> this fact (a key fact in the two crashes, with their 346 deaths).
>>
>> At present, disabling the 'Maneuver Characteristics Augmentation System'
>> that has so far killed two airplanes full of people requires:
>>
>> 1.  Knowing the goddamned thing exists in the first place.
>> 2.  Flipping off the Autopilot Trim Cutout switch on the centre console,
>>     to turn off MCAS.
>> 3.  Flipping off the Stabilizer Trim Cutout switch on the centre console,
>>     to suppress power to the trim motor.
>> 4.  Only then can the crew adjust vertical trim using the stabilizer
>>     trim wheel.
>>
>> By implication, the crucial bit of safety gear ordered by _some_
>> airlines such as American Airlines at an undisclosed but probably
>> premium price, the 'angle of attack indicator' to display readings
>> of the two AoA sensors, will remain a high-priced optional extra.
>> 'We are going to do everything we can to make sure that accidents like
>> this never happen again', said Mr. Sinnett, so I guess retrofitting
>> the AoA indicator for everyone immediately at company expense must be
>> somehow impossible, eh?  ;->
>>
>> Mr. Sinnett indignantly rejected the notion of there being any need to
>> overhaul the company's aircraft development process:  'The process that
>> we follow with our regulators has continued to lead to safer and safer
>> airplanes and safer and safer operations over time.'
>>
>> (Perhaps Mr. Sinnett is having difficulty determining which direction is
>> up.)
>>
>>
>>
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