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COLUMNS CEO of the Cockpit #52: There Is No Trying To Reason With The Holiday SeasonYou can be upset about working on Christmas, or you can be sanquine and reminisce about the good-old (holi)days of cooking turkey in the galley and layovers with belly dancers. AVweb’s fictional CEO of the Cockpit, looking at imminent retirement, is surprisingly cheerful. ___________________MAINTENANCE MATTERS Safety Wire TechniquesIt’s one of those things that every maintenance-minded operator should know how to do. In fact, it’s the cornerstone of maintenance procedures as diverse as brake relining and oil-filter changing. But many non-mechanics are fearful of tying safety wires, because they don’t know how or because they think they’re not allowed to do it. AVweb is here to help.