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Old 27th Jul 2023, 19:21
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Broken sunvisors

Spares

Broken FO sidestick PTT switch

Old side stick, an hour, new on 4 hours

Broken headset holder

Spares

Parking brake light inop

Spares or troubleshooting

WX Unreliable

A tranciever (30 minite and spares) ANT, an hour and spares

APU Inop (after wet socks smell)

A day at least

FAC2 made inop, as it was causing "spurious": RUDDER TRAVEL LIMITER SYS 2, RUDDER TRIM SYSTEM 2, YAW DAMPER 2 faults

Both items are known to be not very reliable, and a fair amount of time to change up on the fin

Rudder control rods corrosion, mandatory inspections till next C check

Time

Damaged armrest, sharp plastic

Spares and time

Flight deck door difficult to close

Ask Airbus

Speaker volume fades (as flight progresses, 100% volume ends up sounding more like 20%)

Never heard of that one

F/CTL FCDC2 Fault after every takeoff

Interesting

CPDLC fault

A box with lots of software loading, so time

Altimeter setting wrong according to some ATS units

Explain?

Printer inop

Spares
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