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Pro tip: Labeling my pinout diagrams saved me 3 hours on a 737 nav fix
I was stuck tracing a fault in the VOR receiver on a 737-800 last week, spent forever flipping through the manual every time I lost my place. Decided to print out the pinout diagrams from the AMM and scribble notes directly on them with a sharpie in the order I tested. Any of you guys have a go-to method for keeping track of your steps when you're deep in the avionics bay and the schematic pages are getting greasy?
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gray_schmidt829d ago
Jumped right into it a few months back on a 757 myself, @roberts.jordan, and yeah, the tablet's great until your gloves are covered in grease and you're balancing on one knee. I started taking photos of the relevant schematic pages on my phone, then scribbling my test point numbers right there in the photo's markup tool. Saved my bacon on a faulty marker beacon receiver last week, no more flipping back and forth while my neck's cramping up in the bay. The sharpie-on-paper trick is still solid though, I've got a stack of those things in my toolbox looking like half-finished treasure maps.
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