Boeing makes progress on 737 Max, but FAA needs weeks to review

Boeing is making progress toward getting its 737 MAX aircraft in the air again, but the FAA will need at least several more weeks for review, FAA administrator Steve Dickson said Tuesday. Boeing has said it hopes to resume 737 MAX flights later this year, although major US and Canadian airlines have canceled MAX flights into January or February. Dickson said that the agency had received the "final software load" and "complete system description" of revisions to the plane, which was grounded in March. The FAA is currently using "aircraft production software" in the engineering simulator. The next step is to complete pilot workload management testing and have US and international pilots conduct scenarios to determine training requirements before a key certification test flight. <br/>