by Joe Godfrey | Dec 15, 2014 | SavvyAnalysis Puzzlers
Ronald Reagan used to say “Trust but Verify”. He was talking about Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles, but the philosophy works for data from engine data monitors, too. While we sit comfortably in the cockpit scanning the gauges, our data-gathering probes...
by Mike Busch | Dec 1, 2014 | EAA Sport Aviation Magazine, Magazine Articles
If you think CO-related accidents are rare, think again… On January 17, 1997, a Piper Dakota departed Farmingdale, New York, on a planned two-hour VFR flight to Saranac Lake, New York. The pilot was experienced and instrument-rated; his 71-year-old mother, a low-time...
by Mike Busch | Nov 1, 2014 | EAA Sport Aviation Magazine, Magazine Articles
If you’re buying an aircraft, here’s how to structure the prebuy. Over the past six months, my company’s prebuy activity has gone right through the roof. We’ve been responding to 30 to 50 prebuy requests a month, perhaps four times as many as we were seeing a year...
by Mike Busch | Oct 1, 2014 | EAA Sport Aviation Magazine, Magazine Articles
Why are our piston aircraft engines so @#$%*! inefficient? Our piston aircraft engines convert chemical energy into mechanical work, but they don’t do it very efficiently. It turns out that only about one-third of the energy contained in the 100LL we burn winds up...
by Mike Busch | Sep 1, 2014 | EAA Sport Aviation Magazine, Magazine Articles
“To err is human…” but when humans make mistakes working on aircraft, bad things can happen. During the century since the Wright Brothers first flew, the predominant perpetrator in aircraft accidents has shifted dramatically from machine to human. Today, human error...
