My trainer's sign off habit was hiding a real problem for 4 years

Kept signing off squawk sheets right after a ramp check because 'if it flew in, it's good' until a captain in Tulsa asked me to actually pull the EICAS history and I saw 3 flagged items I'd been rubber stamping. How do you all handle the pressure when the gate agent is standing there tapping their watch?

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elizabethf8518d ago

Flew in, so it’s good is how planes end up on the news. That captain in Tulsa did you a favor. Half the flagged items on EICAS are things that won’t bite you until flight 3 or 4, like a bleed valve that only acts up at altitude or a pack that runs hot on the ground. The gate agent’s watch is not your problem. Their schedule pressure is not a sign the plane is fine. Sign what’s actually written, no matter who is tapping.

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