"Greasy Rider" wrote in message
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"J.F." wrote in message
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Here are some actual maintenance complaints submitted by military
pilots and the replies from the maintenance crews. "Squawks" are problem
listings that pilots generally leave for maintenance crews.

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We had fire control radar that was supposed to lock on a towed banner with
a rotating metal disk. Occasionally pilots would get the angle too narrow
and the radar would lock on the towing aircraft rather than the banner.
Strictly pilot error.

Squawk: Radar locks on tow plane.
Remedy: Crippled tow plane lock on circuit.


We had the usual "no volume" and "no display" complaints. Turning a knob
solved most of those. Sometimes we'd get a "no strobe" complaint in one
quarter of the azimuth indicator. Then the remedy was to usually R&R a
transistor in the preamp logarithmic amplifier board. Generally, "operator
error" was frowned upon when noted in the "action taken" column of the AFTO
349.

Tom