Canada, disregarding FAA, insists on simulator training for 737

The effort to return Boeing’s 737 Max airliners to flight hit another hurdle when Canada’s transport minister said he favoured requiring new simulator training for pilots. Transport minister Marc Garneau said Wednesday that the planes would be grounded “for as long as it takes” and pilots should experience the fixes Boeing is devising in simulators instead of relying only on more basic, computer-based ground training. Garneau said: “From our point of view, it’s not going to be a question of pulling out an iPad and spending an hour on it.” His comments stand in contrast to a proposal released by the US FAA Tuesday that concluded the differences between the 737 Max and the most recent earlier models weren’t significant and there wasn’t a need for additional simulator time for pilots transitioning from one plane to the other. <br/>