[SystemSafety] [EXT] Re: "FAA chief '100% confident' of 737 MAX safety as flights to resume"

[Les Chambers]

So it goes on. 
These guys worry me. 
I wonder if any of them has ever written a line of code. 
Do any of them understand how easily a misplaced colon can bring down a system ... and the 
aircraft it embeds. 
When will they understand that the only way to certify a complex system is to have skilled 
professionals embedded in its development from start to finish.  Professionals who’s only love is 
for the technology . Professionals unimbued with the idolatry  of shareholder value.

Until that time I take solace in stoic philosophy.
‘ all men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them.’
Marcus Aurelius

Les


> No- it is not just pilot training. There were changes to software, displays, checklists, MMELs etc.  
Perhaps the recent Notices (directives to the FAA personnel) tell a more complete the story. 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: systemsafety <systemsafety-bounces at lists.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de> On Behalf Of Derek 
M Jones
> Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2020 9:03 AM
> To: systemsafety at lists.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de
> Subject: [EXT] Re: [SystemSafety] "FAA chief '100% confident' of 737 MAX safety as flights to 
resume"
> 
> All,
> 
> It looks, to my non-expert eye, like the 'solution' is lots of pilot training:
> 
https://www.faa.gov/foia/electronic_reading_room/boeing_reading_room/media/737_FSB_Report.
pdf
> 
> -- 
> Derek M. Jones           Evidence-based software engineering
> tel: +44 (0)1252 520667  blog:shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com
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