Yes I work a lot on narrow body airbus and complete power down is a last result that sometimes works. But for the airbus, we have an excellent circuit breaker trip list for common defects which came from Monarch. I was trying to get a similar list for the B747. I shall have to sit down with the FIM and copy them out. In the good old days with a paper FIM you could quickly look it up (we carried the FIM in our van), but now its on CD it takes too long. I carry a laptop in the van with the FIM loaded in the hard-drive, but it takes time to page through a computor. Anyway come 01 Nov we go back to B777 for the winter, and the FIM is miles better so should be OK.
Anyway if anyone has a list of CB trips for B744 then I would be most grateful