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A lead at the Van Nuys hangar called my torque paperwork lazy, and he was right
Two guys on my crew write torque values on a napkin and sign the work card later. I did the same thing for 3 years and nobody cared. Then a lead pulled me aside after a King Air inspection and said "if that fastener backs out, nobody can prove what you set it to." I started logging every value on the spot with the wrench serial number, and my sign-offs take 10 extra minutes a plane. Has anyone else had a lead push them to change a habit they thought was fine?
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lily_torres3116d ago
That line about "nobody can prove what you set it to" sounds good in a hangar talk, but I've seen it cut both ways. Ten extra minutes a plane adds up fast, and on a busy day that's the difference between making your slot and pushing a whole line back. The napkin thing is sloppy, sure, but the real fix is a torque log the whole crew fills out together, not one guy playing notary on every fastener. Half the old timers I know got their values second-hand and those planes flew for decades.
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