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Old timer at the hangar in Wichita said he signs off by feel instead of the manual, and now I keep second guessing him
Last week I was working a King Air in Wichita and a guy with about 30 years on me watched me pull up the maintenance manual for a wire routing check and he just shook his head. He said, "Son, I've done this so long I know where every harness goes without looking, the book slows me down." I laughed it off at first but it stuck with me all week. On one hand he has a point, that experience is real and you build a feel for a job you've done a thousand times. On the other hand, we had a plane come in last year with a bundle rubbing the wrong way because somebody went off memory and skipped the book. I keep going back and forth on whether his way is a sign of skill or a bad habit waiting to bite. Where do you all land on this? Do you trust the manual every time or do you lean on what you know after years on the floor?
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