My lead tech told me to stop chasing intermittent squawks in the cockpit and check the connector pins first

River Scott · 2026-10-20T06:35:03.153094+00:00

I fought a flap position fault for two days last week, swapping the sensor and reflowing a solder joint on the indicator, and it was still flickering. Turned out pin 4 in the P2 connector was pushed back about 2mm, and my lead called it in ten minutes flat. What's your go-to trick for finding a backed-out pin before you start pulling black boxes?

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