Pilots cannot be trained to fly Boeing 737 MAXs safely if the stick shaker in a simulator is faulty, the plane manufacturer has informed the Director-General of Civil Aviation, which barred 90 SpiceJet pilots from flying these planes following an inspection of a training facility of the airline.
Boeing has also said that it will be grounding the simulator until the stick shaker is replaced. A stick shaker is a mechanical device that rapidly moves the control yoke (the stick) of an aircraft to warn the pilot of an imminent stall, or the plane falling when there is a drastic reduction in a plane’s speed that gives it lift.
The training was being conducted at a third-party simulator centre, CAE Simulation Training Centre, in Greater Noida. It is jointly owned by IndiGo promoter Rahul Bhatia and Canadian manufacturer of simulation technologies CAE. However, the training was being imparted by instructors from SpiceJet.
