Re:American Airlines' Legendary Mechanic Passes Away at 100 ...
by balderdash on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @10:14AM
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A former employer owned a combined cycle power plant -when they were having issues (not huge ones, but weird issues or gauge readings) they’d call this old timer and he’d come in walking around ask the operators to make some settings changes and be listening the whole time. And he’d come back and be like “hey the second stage compressor is out of balance” there were all sorts of telematics and manuals, but he could tell what was wrong just by listening…that was invaluable
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Re:American Airlines' Legendary Mechanic Passes Away at 100 ...
by cucumber3732842 on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @01:08PM
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The diagnostic/service steps you have to write to preclude any requirement of skill/experience make it stupid proof waste a lot of labor in the process. Cheaper to have the guy with the skill/experience show up and listen to the thing.