Originally Posted by
Uplinker
Hmmm, be interesting to know.
Or maybe Airbus manuals are like Haynes manuals* ?
*Haynes manuals were used by amateur and semi-pro car mechanics in the UK, and they explain how to remove and replace all the components of a given car. Now we have youtube and the web. You bought a Haynes manual for each type of car that you owned so you could do the maintenance. However, they sometimes make a real production of certain jobs, and involve unnecessary extra complication:
They were technically right, but the poor guy, (e.g. me), laying under a car on the driveway in the rain - instead of in a nice big garage with a four post lift and all the right tools - had to be creative and find other ways to do the job.
Haynes manuals also provided a useful oil-marked log of work done on the vehicle by the owner. If buying a 2nd-hand car, you would ask the owner if he had the Haynes manual. You could then flip through and identify exactly what work he had done (or attempted) by identifying which pages were covered in oily, greasy, gritty paw-prints.