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Shoutout to the guy at the hangar who said 'just bypass it'
I was pulling a wire run for a new transponder install on a Cessna 172 last week, and I overheard a guy telling a new hire to just bypass a faulty ground sensor on the landing gear with a jumper wire to get the light off. He said, 'The plane won't know the difference.' That kind of talk makes my skin crawl. I spent two hours on a King Air once chasing a weird voltage drop that turned out to be from a 'simple' bypass someone did years before. It's never just a light. That sensor is there for a reason, and if you skip the real fix, you're just handing a bigger, more expensive problem to the next person, or worse, to the pilot. It's lazy and it's not how you build a safe aircraft. How do you guys handle hearing that kind of shortcut talk on the line?
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olivia6709d ago
Ugh, that's the worst. I just ask them straight up what the book says to do for that write-up. Usually shuts it down. What did you end up saying to the guy?
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mason_reed479d ago
That kind of talk is exactly why we have paperwork trails. Makes you wonder how many ghosts are in the system from past "fixes" like that. Solidarity, because chasing those problems later is a massive headache nobody needs. Good on you for seeing it for what it is, a future problem waiting to happen.
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