Originally Posted by
megan
I jumped at the chance as it got one away from crew room politics. .
We were fortunate that most pilots didn't mind mx flights unless you disturbed their safety nap. Then they never made it through their pre-flight. To mitigate, we kept a maintenance stand outside the pilot trailer window to recon the situation prior to entering.
roscoe1= Working on the AS350D model electrical wiring before people got smart and went to circuit breakers and ring terminal blocks was always a joy. What were the engineers thinking?
All the Aerospatiale engineers were on loan from the Renault truck works. They brought that cutting edge 100 year old technology with them to include that truck horn for the hydraulics switch. What was even more fun was dropping the overhead fuse panels on a AS355.