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Pilot unions and families of those killed in a crash of Boeing Co’s 737 Max are asking for revisions to proposed new training for the grounded jetliner.
The Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) proposed new training module and emergency checklists for the Max are “clunky at best†and should be streamlined, the Southwest Airlines Pilots Association said in comments filed with the FAA. A group of dozens of family members and friends of the 157 people who died on an Ethiopian Airlines crash on March 10, 2019, go further, seeking additional design changes and more detailed training outline.
“The FAA’s proposed update to the 737 Max pilot training requirements is inadequate to rectify Boeing’s history of 737 Max-related failures and insufficient to prepare pilots to safely fly the airplane,†the family group said in its comments.
Most of the 29 comments posted on a government website were technical and don’t appear to create a huge challenge to the FAA’s work finalising changes to the plane that will allow it to return to service, possibly before the end of the year.
Several people urged the FAA to allow the use of simpler flight simulators that don’t replicate the motion of a plane but are cheaper to use and easier to access during the pandemic.