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I finally stopped chasing squawks on the flight line and started using a 3 ring binder, cut my sign off time from 45 minutes to 15
Been turning wrenches on the line for 6 years and always kept my squawk notes on scrap paper or the back of my hand. Three months ago I grabbed a cheap 3 ring binder from the supply closet at our hangar in Tulsa and started logging every gripe with the tail number, the date, and what I touched. After about 40 write ups I looked back and found the same pitot heat issue on three different airframes, all traced to a chafed wire bundle behind the panel. Now I check that bundle first on any pitot squawk and I am signing off way faster than the old guess and check routine. Anybody else keep a paper log like this or do you just run everything through the maintenance tracking program?
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oscarh161d ago
Did you ever read that FAA safety brief about how United started doing something like this back in the 90s? They had mechanics keep a running log per tail number and it cut repeat write ups way down. I heard about it from one of the old timers in our shop. Seems like the paper log catches stuff the tracking program misses because you actually have to stop and think about what you wrote. The program just wants codes clicked in, nobody reads it later.
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