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2d ago
inIt took me 4 hours to label 60 network drops because I skipped the toner on day one
Label as you pull and you save yourself the headache plus the toner cost later.
5d ago
inI used to blow off elevation gain maps until a 4,200 foot day in the Collegiate Peaks humbled me
This is the same trap people fall into with money honestly, where they look at one big number and ignore the rate. A 20 mile flat walk sounds way worse on paper than 6 miles uphill, but the uphill is doing way more work per step. I learned this the hard way too, not in Colorado but on a trip where I had 3,000 feet in 4 miles and thought it would be a quick morning. It was not. The gain per mile number is really the thing that tells you how hard each step is going to feel, and mileage alone hides all of that. So yeah, checking that number first is smart, and it carries over to all kinds of stuff where the total looks fine but the pace of it is what actually gets you.
9d ago
inThe new guy at our hangar asked me why I still ring out every connector by hand, and I didn't have a good answer
The box only knows what it was told to look for, so it will never catch a failure mode the engineer who wrote the test didn't think of. Your King Air pin backing out under vibration is a perfect example, because no bench check runs the thing hot, cold, and shaking at the same time. Maybe the real split is not hands versus machine, it is trusting the box on known failure modes and saving your hands for the stuff nobody's written a test for yet.