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A check airman in Dallas ripped my squawk write-ups apart and he was right
Back when I started out wrenching on a King Air out of Addison, I used to write squawks like "pilot side TCAS acting weird" and figure the next guy would sort it out. A check airman pulled me aside after a turn and said "weird is not a word in this logbook, tell me what it did and when it did it," and I rewrote it with the exact flight phase and what the display showed. Do you all write alt vs baro and the flight condition in your squawks, or is that overkill where you work?
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riveradams1mo ago
Did the same thing early on until an old A&P sat me down after I wrote "pressurization acting up" for the third time. He made me sit in the cockpit and watch the gauge while we ran it up on the ground, and wrote "cab alt climbs past 10k at 15 min into climb, outflow valve not modulating, cabin rate pegged at 1500 fpm." That write up got the plane fixed in one try instead of three. Now I put the altitude, the flight phase, and what the gauge actually did every single time. Baro vs alt matters too because if you just say "FL180" nobody knows if you mean indicated or pressure altitude when the mel is involved. Takes an extra two minutes at the gate and saves everybody hours later.
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