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My old shop lead told me to stop using the manual for wire repair, and I think he was wrong
Had a talk with a lead at our hangar in Tulsa who said real techs just go off memory for connector pinouts and that looking stuff up slows the crew down. But I found 2 mispinned wires on a King Air last Tuesday that would've been caught if he'd just opened the book. Anyone else deal with old-school guys who treat the manual like a sign of weakness?
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hugo_gonzalez6817d ago
That line about looking stuff up slowing the crew down drives me nuts because it's backwards, the slow part is redoing the job after a wire is in the wrong hole. I ran into the same thing years back on 1900s and King Airs, and what saved me was simple, I kept a little notebook of every pinout I pulled and wrote the AMM chapter next to it. After a while I knew most of it cold but I still cracked the book on anything I hadn't touched in a month, takes 30 seconds, way less than a mispin. The trick with those old-school leads is to not argue about it, just say you're double checking your memory and do it anyway, because the sign off is on you not him. Two mispins on one plane is not a small thing either, that's a squawk waiting to happen in the air. Do it your way, the book is not a weakness, it's the whole reason it exists.
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