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Yeah it’s great to point an AI at a very detailed and specific engineering manual and have it distilled down into bullet points. There’s certainly no room for information loss in that plan! /s
Plus everything important is always written down. It’s more true in aviation than anywhere else (except maybe space flight), but still.
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> It takes four years of education before becoming a taxi driver in London That doesn't apply to private hire vehicle drivers afaik.
Or Uber drivers in London
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There are detailed step-by-step instruction cards (task cards) for every single maintenance operation on an airplane. Nobody is reinventing the wheel, they’re carefully following predetermined procedures. Someone has to figure out which maintenance procedures need to happen, but the work itself is laid out for you step by step.
Cool! I did not know that. Augmented reality glasses, coupled with an AI that can interpret vision would seem to be useful here then.
There needs to be SOME accountability. "Oh, but my glasses told me to unscrew this bolt, I was just following orders." is not how I want the future to be.
How many apprentices did this guy managed to put through the pipeline before his career was over? It always shocks me how low this number tends to be for highly skilled craftsmen. They spend their century maintaining/creating some of the best work on the planet but when they disappear, unenumerable amount of knowledge, tips and experience silently disappears as quickly as it was gained, and it's sad to observe every…
How many apprentices did this guy managed to put through the pipeline before his career was over? It always shocks me how low this number tends to be for highly skilled craftsmen. They spend their century maintaining/creating some of the best work on the planet but when they disappear, unenumerable amount of knowledge, tips and experience silently disappears as quickly as it was gained, and it's sad to observe every…
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There is a famous story about how an F16 got grounded because an half inch metal pin was missing from the cockpit canopy. Nobody knew what the pin did or if it was even necessary but you can't fly a plan that 'missing a part'. After several days of being grounded they finally reached out to a guy who had retired 20 years ago who told them the pin was a part of a analogue sensor that had been replaced nearly 30 years…
> but you can't fly a plan that 'missing a part' It’s a great story, but I assure you there is a pretty high percentage of airplanes flying with missing parts and systems placarded as INOP in both military and civilian aviation.
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Hang on... My comment was not made "hours ago". It was made 3 days (2026-08-29) before this post reached the front page. You can hover over the "hours ago" link and the timestamp does not match the title. Why is the timestamp of my comment (and many others) of this post manipulated? Was this post recently merged with another duplicate?
"second-chance" pool or the "repost invited" pool. Seems it's not on https://news.ycombinator.com/invited so "second-chance" seems to be what happened. Introduced a mere 5 years ago :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308 Interesting you've been here at least since then and haven't noticed it before, happens relatively often, dare I say at least once a day?
A buddy of mine is the son of a United Airlines mechanic who was fairly high up in the organization. When his dad passed United gave him a stack of blank wax tickets. His son could write the destination on them and fly for free. Near the end of the stack they were largely ornamental as he could just tell them where he wanted to go and they would print a proper ticket. But still, it was a rather classy way to honor hi…