Starting today 29 June 2020, Boeing aviators and test crew members from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) have commenced on a three-day re-certification test exercise on the 737 MAX 7 air craft.
The test exercise will include crew running methodically scripted mid-air scenarios such as steep-banking turns, progressing to more extreme manoeuvres on a route primarily over Washington state from the Boeing Field near Seattle.
More so, the test includes touch-and-go landings at the eastern Washington airport in Moses Lake, and a path over the Pacific Ocean coastline, adjusting the flight plan and timing as needed for weather and other factors.
During the test flights, pilots will deliberately trigger the reprogrammed MCAS stall-prevention software faulted in both crashes in aerodynamic stall conditions. This is mainly targeting the new protections Boeing added to MCAS. It’s in bid to certify that the new system is robust enough to prevent the scenario pilots encountered in earlier registered crashes of craft of similar make-up, when they were unable to offset MCAS.
Next, FAA officials in Washington and the Seattle-area will examine reams of digital and paperwork flight test data to assess the jet’s airworthiness. Weeks later, after the data is analysed, FAA Administrator Steve Dickson, a former F-15 fighter pilot who has promised the 737 MAX will not be approved until he has personally signed off on it, will board the same plane to make his assessments.
If all goes well, the FAA would then need to approve new pilot training procedures and would not likely approve the plane’s un grounding until September. That means the jet is on a path to resume U.S. service before year-end, only if all goes well.
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