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daniel_martinez92
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2h ago
Shoutout to the old timer at the hangar in Tulsa who caught my connector pin crimps
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cora842
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21h ago
A lightning strike at the Knoxville hangar taught me to always check the bond straps on the wingtips
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the_sean
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2d ago
Stopped chasing wire breaks with a meter, one trick on a King Air cut my troubleshooting from 4 hours to 20 minutes
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barbara_butler
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3d ago
Watched a pitot static line fail right as we pushed out of Grand Rapids and had zero spares on the truck
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henry196
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3d ago
Spent 3 hours chasing a comm fault on a King Air with a Fluke, then found it in 5 minutes with a $40 wiggle test box
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drew_thomas9
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3d ago
Showerthought: I used to think contact cleaner was for lazy guys until I watched a 12 year old harness come back to life
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craig.wren
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4d ago
Logged my 500th squawk in the tail log and I honestly just stared at the page for a minute
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anthony_jackson
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5d ago
I finally gave up on the crimp tool from the big box store after a guy at the hangar in Wichita showed me his ratcheting one
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viola171
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6d ago
PSA: That $85 automated crimper paid for itself in a month, and I'm never going back to hand tools
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anna177
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6d ago
Lost my AHRS sync on a night flight out of Boise, and a $3 connector pin saved me from grounding the bird
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davis.emma
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7d ago
Warning: Told my chief to ground the plane over a flickering radio, got overruled, and now I keep the printout in my toolbox
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sarah_nelson
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7d ago
Used to chase every wire by hand with a tone generator, now the fault finder does it in 20 minutes
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dixon.felix
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9d ago
A retired tech from my old squadron asked me why I still use the paper wiring diagrams, and I didn't have a good answer
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the_phoenix
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10d ago
Spent a whole shift chasing a fuel gauge fault that turned out to be the connector I unplugged myself
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grant.parker
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11d ago
Showerthought: My first APU start failure in Wichita taught me more than a year of line work
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