by Mike Busch | Oct 1, 2016 | AOPA Pilot Magazine, Magazine Articles
A&Ps are trained to find things wrong with your aircraft. But there’s a time and place for that, and it comes once a year. It was the week before AirVenture 2016. Normally, I would never perform any maintenance on my trusty Cessna 310 immediately before departing...
by Joe Godfrey | Sep 15, 2016 | SavvyAnalysis Puzzlers
Like millions of others, last week I saw Sully recently. If you’re a pilot, I don’t see how you avoid wondering what you would have done with a powerless airliner at 2800 feet and no good options. I’m not giving anything away to tell you that...
by Mike Busch | Sep 1, 2016 | AOPA Pilot Magazine, Magazine Articles
Fixing is usually the easiest part of aircraft maintenance. Figuring out what’s wrong is usually the hardest part. By Mike Busch | A&P/IA A funny thing happened on my way to Milwaukee… It was 2013 and I was flying my trusty 1979 Cessna T310R to speak at the...
by Joe Godfrey | Aug 15, 2016 | SavvyAnalysis Puzzlers
In case there was any doubt, this Puzzler is about mag checks. Specifically, it’s to introduce a new way to display the data from mag checks. For a while now, analysts have been doing this manually and now we have a button that automates the process. And we...
by Mike Busch | Aug 1, 2016 | AOPA Pilot Magazine, Magazine Articles
Before following expert advice, choose your expert with care. We aviators are of necessity a trusting lot. We constantly trust other people with our lives, our safety, and our financial wellbeing. We trust nameless and faceless air traffic controllers to keep us from...
