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claire64
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19h ago
Rant: spent 6 hours on a flap position fault in Tulsa, and it was 3 chafed wires rubbing on a rib clip
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jaken23
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3d ago
Spent 6 hours chasing a squawk on a CRJ that turned out to be a 3 inch piece of safety wire
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elliotm37
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3d ago
Bought a $180 soldering iron after 15 years of the $20 specials and I feel dumb
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angelac63
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4d ago
A pilot asked me why the GPS said we were in Topeka when we were over Amarillo
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margaret692
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10d ago
Watched a ramp guy in Tulsa wave off a $40k pitot test because of a wasp nest in the boom
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the_ruby
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10d ago
Third time I found a cannon plug torqued past spec on a 737 and nobody wants to hear about it
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lee733
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13d ago
Pro tip: a retired Delta guy at the hangar coffee pot got me to stop fighting intermittent faults the hard way
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calebw50
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14d ago
Update: I swore off thermal cameras for tracing intermittent wiring faults until a Cessna 172 at KAPA humbled me last Tuesday
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elliotm37
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15d ago
Showerthought: I wasted 2 hours on a fuel gauge fault because I skipped the simplest check first
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milar46
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15d ago
I was torqueing BNC connectors by feel for 3 years until a loose one bit me on a CRJ
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lee_bailey65
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16d ago
A ramp guy at BWI asked why I kept pulling the same breaker, and it hit me
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the_dakota
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19d ago
Found a way to cut wire bundle ring-out time in half using a tone generator trick
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torres.jason
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19d ago
Rant: spent 9 hours on a flap disagree light because I trusted the built in test
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skyler_anderson65
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20d ago
I used to think hot mic checks on the intercom were a waste of time till one caught a stuck PTT in Tulsa
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smith.jordan
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20d ago
Found out the ADS-B mandate deadline was Jan 1 2020 and we still get planes in needing the upgrade
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