Exactly.hoffman900 wrote: ↑Tue Feb 27, 2018 9:36 pm That said, they sometimes see things in the field that the engineer may not. I don’t think a guy like Dr. Andrew Randolph or the late Keith Duckworth has/had assembled many engines (I could be wrong!), but you would be a doofus to not listen to him or anything written by or about Keith based on that.
My former director (PhD Physicist) was like that. Put a meter in his hand and stand back- something was going to arc.
But- if he told you (from behind his desk) that the beam steering was fluctuating due to X..you had better be listening.
Quick story: When I built my first BBC, it didn't perform as expected on the track. He took one look at the setup/timeslip/datalog and stated: You're not supplying enough fuel volume. I'm thinking: Right. Two months later when a racer told me the same thing, I replaced the -8 with -10.
It flew.
Point is, some folks are so bright (and educated) that they are capable of logic we can't even imagine. I'm okay with that, just teach me.