How Many Deferrals is "Normal" at your Shop?
04-12-2026 | 05:35 AM
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We had the rubber gasket thing at the bottom of the Airbus stick coming off recently. It uses a special nylon type of rope that holds it in place.
The mechanic came to the plane and said well I’ll look up and see if we can just defer the side stick, since there’s two. He was dead serious and I just played along and told him that he should go do that and let us know.
they’ll defer anything if they can go back inside and watch whatever was on the TV
The mechanic came to the plane and said well I’ll look up and see if we can just defer the side stick, since there’s two. He was dead serious and I just played along and told him that he should go do that and let us know.
they’ll defer anything if they can go back inside and watch whatever was on the TV
04-12-2026 | 07:10 AM
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We had the rubber gasket thing at the bottom of the Airbus stick coming off recently. It uses a special nylon type of rope that holds it in place.
The mechanic came to the plane and said well I’ll look up and see if we can just defer the side stick, since there’s two. He was dead serious and I just played along and told him that he should go do that and let us know.
they’ll defer anything if they can go back inside and watch whatever was on the TV
The mechanic came to the plane and said well I’ll look up and see if we can just defer the side stick, since there’s two. He was dead serious and I just played along and told him that he should go do that and let us know.
they’ll defer anything if they can go back inside and watch whatever was on the TV
When you only have one HYD system, that's when you start to worry in a bus.
04-14-2026 | 12:38 PM
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Holy mackal. That’s pretty good considering that at my regional it’s not uncommon to have 2-3, sometimes 4-5, especially with our older 700’s. Every now and then you come across a plane with 5-7. Those are always fun to brief.
04-14-2026 | 04:11 PM
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Other than that it's more the norm to not have any.
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04-15-2026 | 12:54 AM
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I can recall a story and video I've seen of a Mesa CRJ9 flight deck covered in orange stickers, so much so they ran out of places to put them and started slapping them on the flight deck door.
Must've been 25+ but, how many of those were NEFs, I don't know.
Must've been 25+ but, how many of those were NEFs, I don't know.
04-15-2026 | 06:27 AM
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Agreed. Rarely do I see more than one, and usually it’s a nonessential cabin item. When the -300’s were about to go away I flew several that had multiple items but like Hoover wrote having none is the norm at WN.
04-15-2026 | 08:17 PM
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Meh….I flew a 747-400F that had over 30 MEL stickers scattered about….all but 2 of them were inop power drive units(the electrically powered wheels that move the cargo containers) on the cargo decks…and a dozen or more are moving every container so it’s not even noticeable. It’s all in the details.
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