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That one inspector who made me redo a safety wire because it faced the wrong way
I was working at a regional hangar in Wichita about two years ago. I had this old FAA inspector come by for a routine check on a landing gear retract link. He looked at my safety wire for maybe two seconds and said 'nope, twist it the other direction or I'm writing it up.' I argued that it was tight and secure, but he just pointed at the manual and walked off. Spent 20 minutes redoing it because the wire 'needed to tighten under rotation' according to his pet theory. Has anyone else run into an inspector who follows rules that aren't even in the book?
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