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veraw47
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55m ago
Spent $210 on a used pitot static test box off eBay and it was dead on arrival
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sandra693
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1d ago
Boss told me to sign off a squawk I never saw, and I walked out. Who was right?
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the_miles
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1d ago
An old lead tech in Wichita told me to stop twisting wire bundles so tight, and it fixed a problem I had been chasing for 3 weeks
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milap35
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1d ago
TIL the ILS shelter at a rural airport in Idaho had a wasp nest in the localizer antenna box
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jana584
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1d ago
I finally stopped chasing squawks on the flight line and started using a 3 ring binder, cut my sign off time from 45 minutes to 15
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reese_wood55
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2d ago
PSA: swapped my old crimpers for a ratcheting pair last week and I'm kicking myself for waiting 4 years
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finleyprice
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4d ago
Can we talk about the day I figured out I'd been rushing connector pins for 11 years?
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park.tara
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5d ago
Used to pull every LRU off the rack for a swap, now I test the connector pins first
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saraho48
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7d ago
Heard an old timer at the Dallas hangar say he never signs off a repair until he can explain it to a new guy, and it got me thinking about my own sign offs
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mary_schmidt
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8d ago
Tried cleaning a pitot tube with a paperclip after a ramp guy swore by it, and now I have a 3 hour paperwork mess
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miles798
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10d ago
Old timer at the Tulsa hangar taught me more in 20 minutes about wire routing than 3 months of reading
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jasons63
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10d ago
Appreciation post: the day I figured out why my connector pins kept backing out of the plug
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anthony_sullivan7
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13d ago
A lead tech told me to stop twisting my cannon plug wires, and I still think about it
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king.jordan
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15d ago
Used to chase every wire with a test light, now I just wiggle the cannon plug first
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rowanbennett
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15d ago
Hot take: a ramp guy in Tulsa told me my crimp looked fine and it made me change how I check every pin now
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