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Ethiopian air pilots, ZERO simulator time for the 737. Brilliant.
Our fellow caps fans from around the globe likely don't know about this chemical plant fire happening in Texas (of course)...
I wonder where and when that plume of toxic smoke will inevitably end up fully mixed with the air some poor souls will have to breathe. I guess it will all eventually get washed out when it mixes with rain... not sure who is in charge of toxic cloud management however.... IIIRC most of our air pollution ends up in Sweden. Who wants xylene, naptha and pyrolysis?
The nearest air quality sensor to Deer Park is offline
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Boeing didn't force any training from foreign pilots saying it's good enough to just observe new features via text/pics/whatever (takes about an hour, mind you).
As far as I understand there was no simulator with MCAS integrated either.
Some countries received different info via their certification groups (for example, Brazil IIRC). So they (Brazilians) got different info from Boeing (??? maybe got to conclusions themselves but doubtful) and issued some recommendations which wasn't the case for most other countries including Indonesia and Ethiopia.
One way or another, management wanted this plane to be profitable and the rest wasn't considered as much.
Anything to declare? Not buying tickets for any air transport for foreseeable future.
Not sure about that, but I saw a TV broadcast with a pilot in the simulator demonstrating the two side by side switches to flip that disables the MCAS.
Seems interesting. Might be a perfect date night movie.
I have posted some questions on weather message boards about where the toxic plume may end up. No one dared answer me. My feeling is that if they can predict a storm in 7 days, why can't they predict where this black cloud gets pushed. I guess without a model to assist, they are left guessing. Or, the answer is simple. Houston is going to be engulfed in Benzene. I just found this:
"Now that the four-day fire is out at a Houston-area chemical storage complex, the real danger has emerged. Cancer-causing toxins are wafting across the eastern suburbs of the fourth-largest U.S. city, shutting roads, schools and industrial plants, and disrupting everyday life for tens of thousands of people."
The story was never the fire IMO. Maybe I should apply for a job at FEMA.
This story is very buried in the main stream media. Speaking of streams. More bad news. Galveston Bay wildlife may get crushed.
They’ll sweep it under the rug just like they do with Florida and their Red Tide problem that never gained attention outside of social media postings