WHAT! How does Transport Canada’s allowing flight of the 737MAX IN Canada allow it to fly over US airspace to bring it out of AZ storage and put it back? If the airplane is grounded in the US then it’s grounded?? Further, with no date specific for allowing it to fly, why couldn’t the check pilots just use their SIM until the flight time is imminent?
Who exempted the Air Canada B737 Max from from the AD? Does it mean that the problem is solved? Safe to fly? Airworthiness being restored “sooner than later”? Will US airlines follow Air Canada under their example?
I thought that the point of the MAX was to AVOID having MAX-specific type ratings (and, thus, associated training and consequent costs). So, if you got your TR in a legacy model, you can fly a MAX. But if you got your rating in a MAX, you can’t fly a legacy model? None of this makes any sense to me.
“…the [Canadian] government allowed the check pilots to fly 11 hops from Mirabel Airport near Montreal over northern Ontario and Quebec with landings and takeoffs at two Cold War-era former air force bases at Val d’Or, Quebec and North Bay, Ontario.” I don’t see any mention of Arizona. Are the AC MAXs stored there?
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YARS, Air Canada Flight AC2329, C-FTJV, SN61207, arrived at KMZJ,Mariana airport, AZ from Montreal CA on September 16 @3:11pm.
Correction: Air Canada flight AC2359 (C-GEJL)
No … don’t, Raf.
If you go back to the article above, it specifically says that the airplane they flew was the ORIGINAL unmodified configuration. Transport Canada allowed them to fly it over rural parts of Canada but then they take it back to AZ … likely flying over PHX? This story just keeps getting weirder and weirder !!
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Russ let me know that the MAX-specific situation applies only to AC’s Check Airmen. NOW it makes sense to me.
Three if by air?
The grounding order always allowed the airplanes to be repositioned (i.e. flown) for the purposes of maintenance and/or storage. Southwest flew theirs out to the desert for storage. United kept theirs are maintenance bases for a few months and then flew them to storage. So the fine print matters. The airplanes are “grounded” but they can be “repositioned” if “necessary”.
What do words mean anyway?