tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000144.post4612964504001872847..comments2024-03-13T09:47:40.487+00:00Comments on Cockpit Conversation: Why I Love My Director of MaintenanceAviatrixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13634111275860140084noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000144.post-14916330418863393952015-09-15T23:04:46.102+00:002015-09-15T23:04:46.102+00:00Our flying club has both a quantum anomaly and a s...Our flying club has both a quantum anomaly and a spacetime discontinuity.<br /><br />Quantum theory tells us that something can exist in a <i>superposition</i> of two states. For example, an airplane can be both broken and not-broken at the same time. The act of <i>observation</i> causes the wavefunction to collapse to one of the states.<br /><br />In aviation, of course, the only <i>observation</i> that counts is that of the properly licensed IA A&P.<br /><br />So let's say I squawk some problem. The plane is wheeled into the Mx hangar, and the IA looks at it. Due to the quantum anomaly, the wavefunction <i>always</i> collapses to the not-broken state. The appropriate notations are then made in the Mx log.<br /><br />Then the plane is wheeled out of the hangar. At that point, it passes the spacetime discontinuity at the hangar door, and now goes to the <i>inverse</i> of the state it was in before. Of course, since the IA's observation forced the in-hangar state to be "not-broken", the state outside the hangar <i>must</i> be "broken". It's just simple physics.<br /><br />This means that, if the airplane is not-broken, the mere fact of filing a squawk and having it observed by the IA causes it to be broken when it exits the hangar.<br /><br />Which in turn explains why our IA is so annoyed with us when we squawk problems, because, if the aircraft is not-broken, then <i>we are causing the aircraft to break</i>, and thus compromising safety, by filing our squawks.<br /><br />I have applied for Federal funding to study this phenomenon, and will let you know of our results as soon as possible.Ihab Awadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15207814198779576601noreply@blogger.com