Lost Tool / FOD Report Log

Treat it as an incident with a procedure: stop, report (this log — what, where last seen, which aircraft were open), search systematically starting from the last job's panels, and close formally — found (note where; 'inside aircraft' findings are program gold because they justify everything), or unresolved with the exposed aircraft inspected and released by name. The discipline sounds heavy until you read accident reports with flashlights in control runs; the log is also the technician's protection — a documented search is professional behaviour, a quiet shrug is not.

The discipline scales down better than the alternative: one out-of-cal torque value, one lost tool's grounding search, or one insurance claim against an unitemised inventory each cost more than years of thirty-second entries. Small operations skip the systems because nobody requires them — then meet the requirement retroactively, at incident prices. The board is the cheap version of that lesson.

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Yes — one click exports your complete shop record as a CSV file that opens in Excel, Google Sheets or Numbers. The export preserves every column exactly as entered, so you can print it, attach it to paperwork, or hand it to an inspector, buyer or insurance underwriter as a supporting summary alongside your official records.