Comments by "TinLeadHammer" (@TinLeadHammer) on "Mentour Pilot" channel.

  1. Does Tom watch the news? One would think that after two 737 MAX crashes everyone knows about the trim wheels.
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  2.  @mnxs  And they still haven't fixed it. Full disclosure: I am not a pilot nor an aircraft engineer, but I've read enough info to understand that the stabilizer cutout switches are wired on the MAX differently than on prior versions. On prior versions a pilot could disengage STS (which was then augmented by MCAS on the MAX) with one switch, and disengage electric trim control on the control wheel/yoke with another switch. On the MAX both switches turn off everything! So on the MAX the pilot cannot turn STS/MCAS off, but still use electric assist for trimming, all they have available is the stupid hank crank! This has not been fixed after the accidents, so I avoid flying on the MAX.
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  3. Regarding the skills of Russian pilots: this is a fairly rare bird, only 55 were made, it is a heavy cargo hauler used for important missions, so of course the crew is top notch. Sadly, the crew on the Aeroflot Flight 1492 Superjet 100 was no match, hitting runway three times and killing forty one.
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  4. Hi, I opened this video only because I saw a link from a reputable website. If I saw this video on YouTube front page I would never open it because of all the shouting headlines, exclamation marks, etc. Please, consider changing the tone of your video titles and thumbnails to more conservative and less shouting. Thanks.
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  5. Regarding engine thrust trying to pitch the airplane and thus pushing to the yoke, isn't this what MCAS was supposed to solve, re-trimming the airplane dynamically depending on thrust and pitch angle?
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  6. ​ @tomstravels520 I thumbed up your comment, but I wish you did not switch from 3rd to 1st person mid-sentence :)
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  7.  @antiksur8883  The original MCAS design was very sloppy and arrogant: it worked against the pilot and it would not stop. The design was so bad, that the developers and their managers should have been imprisoned for manslaughter. Even after all the fixes, MCAS on the MAX still does not allow to turn it off and use electric trim switches on the control wheel, something that you can do on the NG.
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  8. "Uncontained damage is pretty rare these days" — what about a whole series of P&W engine failures including at least one uncontained failure with Swiss with fan blades falling into French forest?
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  9. This video is an electronics engineer?
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  10. So, they did not recognize that higher than normal electric current could indicate stiffness in the mechanism. And they tried their luck by reconfiguring a damaged component of the system.
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  11. Why? He could not even tell Tom which way to push the trim switches to re-adjust the stabilizer.
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  12. I am sure this is a part of Boeing's PR campaign. Tom was flying 737 MAX. But I will not board it anytime soon because trim cutoff switches have not been re-wired to the NG - and pre-NG - configuration. No siree.
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  13. Non-approved oil on a non-Russian-operated aircraft? This is impossible!
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  14. Hasn't Airbus removed APUs from its aircraft to save weight, or this is what only some American carriers have done?
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