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Appreciation post: finally hit 500 torque checks without a single miss
I do a lot of line work at a regional cargo outfit near Memphis, and torque checks are the boring part nobody talks about. Last Friday, I counted back through my logbook and realized I'd hit 500 consecutive torque checks with zero re-torques needed. That sounds small, but for me it took about 14 months to get here because I used to rush and skip the final verification step. My lead guy noticed me staring at the number and said "that's the kind of quiet win that keeps planes in the air." It surprised me because I usually only track mistakes, not the good streaks. Has anyone else ever counted a positive milestone like this, or am I just weird about logging my own work? The last time I tried to look back that far, I realized I had no idea where my old checklist binder even ended up.
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the_zara7d ago
that's the kind of quiet win that keeps planes in the air" is such a good way to put it, and honestly my version of counting something positive is way dumber. I once got weirdly proud that I went a whole summer without dropping a single socket into an engine bay, and then I dropped one like two days after I said it out loud. That streak stuff is real though, 500 torque checks without a re-torque is no joke, especially doing line work where you get pulled six different ways at once. My old binders are all shoved in a milk crate somewhere so at least you actually kept the log.
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