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Hot take: I finally logged my first solo sign-off on a flap actuator swap at our hangar in Wichita
Eight months ago I started as the new guy at a small shop near the Wichita airport, and my lead wouldn't let me touch anything past an oil change. He handed me the flap actuator job on a 1978 Cessna 172 on a Tuesday morning, told me to read the manual twice, and then walked off to lunch. I torqued the bolts to 40 inch-pounds, safetied the turnbuckle, and ran the flaps up and down 12 times while he watched from the office window. When he signed off on my work without a single red mark, I just stood there grinning like an idiot. What was the first job you got to sign off on by yourself, and did you double check it three times like I did?
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