THE VIDEO SHELF · 737 MAX MCAS runaway trim
Runaway Stabilizer!! How to stop MCAS.
A Boeing 737 pilot explains the runaway stabilizer checklist, the procedure for stopping unwanted horizontal stabilizer movement such as an MCAS activation on the 737 MAX. He walks through the steps, the trim cutout switches and the jackscrew mechanism, and shows a simulator run including the manual trim wheel effort.
Why HN readers recommended it
During the 737 MAX crash coverage, HN commenters linked it as a clear, pilot-led demonstration of what an MCAS runaway looks like and how hard manual trim is to crank.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Mentour Pilot
- Topic
- 737 MAX MCAS runaway trim
- Format
- explainer
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 7
- HN mentions in dataset
- 13
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2019–2022
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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I highly recommend everyone suggestion engineering solutions to watch this video from an actual pilot performing a runaway stabilizer procedure in a 737 simulator. [VIDEO] What happened is a series of failures; this video frames it perfectly.
exabrial on Hacker News · 2019-03
In Where Boeing’s 737 Max Planes Go When They’re GroundedI'd highly recommend anyone who wants to see what an MCAS runaway looks like and the steps needed to correct it watch the following video by Mentour Pilot.[1] He's a 737 pilot for a European budget carrier, and I believe he is qualified to certify …
Declanomous on Hacker News · 2019-03
In No call for simulators in new Boeing 737 Max training proposals> You probably have nothing to worry about with air travel. Well, the conclusion is already made in the statistics, and air travel is the safest, yes, but it's worrying that it's safe despite the enormous fallacies, despite the insane pressure of market forces. A …
pas on Hacker News · 2019-04
In “I worked at Boeing for about 1.5 years in the 2008-9 time period”
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