> So this has almost nothing to do with Airbus at this point, the directive and the "sighs" uttered by the EU aviation agency are directed at the airlines that won't install the update.
As mentioned else-thread, the plane requires a certain level of inspection after the software update, which merely takes a few weeks and lots of human effort.
I find this interesting to compare to the 737 Max. Here the reaction is "just reboot because the inspection after installing the fix takes too long". But with the 737 Max, the reaction is "Create MCAS to avoid the cost of having to retrain pilots? How could you be so stupid?"
I know, the A350 bug hasn't killed anyone (yet). But I see the parallels in the issue, and yet the reactions here are completely opposite.
Part of it, I'm sure, is that the A350 bug is comprehensively root-caused and that root cause is understood to be completely bounded by rebooting the system, whereas MCAS reduces the number of points of failure to, in certain builds of the 737 MAX, a single sensor.
Why won’t EASA ground the un-updated airplanes?