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A retired Navy tech in Pensacola told me to always check the cannon plug first on a comms fault, and I finally listened after wasting 4 hours on a Garmin G500.
He said 'The electrons are lazy, they take the easy way out, and a pin backed out of the connector is the easiest path to nowhere,' which saved me from pulling the whole LRU on a King Air last Tuesday.
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harper_owens1mo agoTop Commenter
That old tech was right on the money. Read a story once about a crew chasing a weird autopilot hiccup for days, only to find a single bent pin in a cannon plug under the copilot's seat. How many man-hours get burned on ghosts in the machine when it's just a simple connection? Makes you wonder why that isn't the first line in every trouble-shooting guide, doesn't it.
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tara7451mo ago
Under the copilot's seat? Seriously?
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