My instructor told me to always trust the manual over a hunch

I was troubleshooting a faulty transponder on a Cessna 172 and thought I had the bad LRU pinned down. He said to check the wiring diagrams in the AMM first, and sure enough, it was a corroded pin in a connector I'd skipped. Anyone else have a story where the book saved you from a rabbit hole?

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john_cooper7mo ago

Rabbit hole" is why we have books.

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kai_knight627mo ago

My old history teacher used to say footnotes were the first hyperlinks. I'd spend an hour chasing one reference to another book. That's how you end up with a stack on your floor you never planned to read.

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henderson.wesley7mo ago

See it the other way around. Books are the original rabbit holes, sending you off on wild tangents for hours.

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