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I agree, but the Rolls still has a sight glass on the side of the oil tank to manually verify Qty if placed on MEL.;)

That is interesting, I wonder if any other manufacturers do the same?

I've been in Aircraft Maintenance for 39 years, I've work on Douglas, Boeing and Airbus aircraft. I currently work the 757, 767 and 777 and have never seen a Fuel Shut Off switch lock detent broken. I've seen the lock detents on older none FADEC aircraft fuel shut of levers fail but never on a...

I love me some Culvers, Nothing beats a Butter Burger and a Turtle Sunday.

@dnewton3 There is an option for an external antenna? Something you purchased or supplied by TM?

I worked at a facility in the Nevada desert similar to this in the late 80's early 90's, an Air Force F-16 performed an emergency landing, the pilot was met by security a black hood placed over his head while he was escorted to somewhere secure. So yes it does happen but I will say some of the...

We used to go to Kalispell quiet often, lived in Libby and if you wanted to do any shopping it was either Spokane or Kalispell. It was fairly common to just hop in the car and drive 90 miles to go to Kmart or the mall.

I grew up in Wisconsin and also spent some time in Montana and we never put the wipers up that I can remember. Since then I have lived in Southern Ohio and now Tennessee and see the wipers up often in winter storms. Up north because it was colder we seemed to get just straight snow but in Ohio...

My daughter graduated last year with a bachelors in Aerospace Engineering and a Masters in Mechanical. She used a MacBook Pro and an iPad Pro, she really liked using the iPad for taking notes with the Apple pencil. For one of the classes She needed Windows, the School computer lab partitioned...

The DC10 was a 3 seater and had a Flight engineer, the MD11 Had more advanced systems and FADEC engines and was a 2 seater. After FedEx acquired DC10's they decided to upgrade the systems and cockpit eliminating the FE and making it a 2 seater they designated it the MD10.

I have one of these for an F150 and one for a Honda CRV, they work good.

I lived in MT in the 80's and 90's, it was only $5.00 back then....inflation.

My first was last year it took 90 days, second was earlier this year it took 1 month and my most recent was last week only took 2 days. So the wait times Have definitely improved, My son got his first 3 years ago he waited a whole year.

Yup, Anytime it was on the ground and the fuel tanks weren't full there was a red X in the book.

I'm not sure how many of you are familiar with Lean Six Sigma. About 15 years ago it was running rampant in the company I work for, I was in a Lean class and we were tasked with improving the process of an oil change. Our last step before completing the task was to verify the oil quantity, the...