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allen.iris
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6h ago
Just realized the avionics guy at the Tulsa hangar was correct about pigtail splices
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aaronsullivan
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6h ago
DAE get told to just reset the fault codes and see if it comes back?
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david_johnson63
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1d ago
Switched from the old pin crimper to a ratcheting one, and my hands are thanking me
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rowanhernandez
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4d ago
Heard a lead tech in Denver say he tests every connector pin twice, and I stole it
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kai_webb91
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10d ago
TIL a guy on my crew torqued a pitot heat connector to 45 in-lbs because 'it felt snug'
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corap21
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10d ago
Serious question, why do new guys crimp the shield drain to the connector backshell instead of grounding it at the rack?
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blair_nguyen
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12d ago
Showerthought: the 24 month recert cycle is too long for anything that actually matters
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baker.holly
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14d ago
Spent 5 hours last Thursday tracking down a UHF comm squawk on a King Air 200 only to find out it was my own test lead
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blairc90
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16d ago
PSA: stop soldering every pin on a cannon plug, crimp tools saved my sanity
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martin.riley
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16d ago
Saw a guy test a pitot heat with his bare hand at Hobby last week
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foster.tessa
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18d ago
Stop testing pitot heat by just touching the tube, you're gonna cook a $4k probe someday
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gavin228
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18d ago
DAE know that a single static zap can fry a $15k LRU? Found it in an old ATA chapter
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robert_cooper
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19d ago
Saw a 1968 727 cockpit at the Pima Air Museum in Tucson last month, and it hit me how much we lost when steam gauges went away
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the_parker
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21d ago
Update: found out the average avionics tech is 54, and it hit me weird
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sagecooper
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22d ago
Unpopular opinion: the 3 hours I spent chasing a phantom fault in a CRJ-200 last Tuesday taught me more than a month of classroom training
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