by Mike Busch | Feb 1, 2010 | EAA Sport Aviation Magazine, Magazine Articles
Last month, we examined the principles of RCM used by the airlines and military to achieve cost-effective maintenance. Now, let’s explore how RCM can be applied to our small GA aircraft, and especially to our piston aircraft engines. For three decades, the airlines...
by Mike Busch | Jan 1, 2010 | EAA Sport Aviation Magazine, Magazine Articles
A strategy known as “Reliability-Centered Maintenance” has drastically reduced the cost of maintaining transport and military aircraft, while simultaneously improving dispatch reliability. Isn’t it time we applied this approach to piston GA? More than 30 years ago, in...