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Saw a shop in Phoenix still using paper logbooks for everything
Walked into a small repair place near the airport last month and they had a whole wall of binders for each aircraft. The lead guy said it 'keeps things honest' but I think it's a huge risk for mistakes. How many of you still work with paper systems like that?
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sandra6931d ago
Heard about a friend's logbook getting soaked by a coffee spill.
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tyler_hall91d ago
Right, like the stain becomes its own kind of data. You could trace the spread of the spill by which entries got blurred, so you know exactly what info was lost on that bad day. It's not just a ruined page, it's a physical record of the accident happening in real time. Someone in the future would have to piece together the event through both the words left and the coffee that wiped other words out. Kinda wild how a random mess turns into part of the story.
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wade7801d ago
Imagine if the coffee stain itself became part of the record. Like, the spill happens on the day of a major system failure. Now that brown splotch is a permanent, weirdly poetic mark on the timeline. Future historians would puzzle over why the entry for the reactor scram is also a detailed map of a latte splash.
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