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That Monday last month almost made me quit the hangar for good
I showed up at 6 AM to find 3 planes with nav light failures, all after a weekend storm. By 9 AM I had one fixed but the second one had a corroded connector hidden behind a panel I had never pulled before. Took me 4 hours just to trace the break with my Fluke meter. Then the third plane had a Garmin screen glitch that kept cycling through startup mode. I spent until 5 PM swapping LRUs and still had to sign off a deferral. The whole week was like that, one thing after another breaking. Has anyone else had a stretch where everything just seems to fail at once?
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sarah_patel2528d ago
That whole week was like that" is exactly what happened to my buddy Mike over at the regional airport. His hangar got hit with three consecutive days of static discharge issues on their King Air fleet, and by day two he was pulling hair out trying to find a bad ground in the belly of one plane. He told me he spent 8 hours swapping circuit breakers before realizing a mouse had chewed through a wire bundle hidden behind the battery box. He still wakes up in a cold sweat thinking about that Garmin glitch you mentioned, it's the kind of thing that makes you question your whole career choice (for like a minute, anyway).
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taylor.sean28d ago
Man, a mouse? Seriously? How long did it take him to find that thing buried in there?
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