Originally Posted by
tdracer
Assuming the problem was "intermittent", troubleshooting becomes very, very difficult and the Maintenance Manual/Fault Isolation Manual are not always a lot of help. Anyone who's a backyard mechanic can appreciate how frustrating it can be to find a problem that only occurs when you're driving 60 miles per hour - but not every time you drive 60 miles per hour. [snip]
I wouldn't be too quick to condemn maintenance because they struggled to correct an intermittent fault.
Howdy, neighbor! (West of Tacoma). B-b-but, in hindsight, shouldn't they have pulled this plane from service? As SLF, I don't wanna gamble.