by Mike Busch | Oct 1, 2018 | AOPA Pilot Magazine, Magazine Articles
The myriad benefits of high manifold pressure and low RPM I bought my first airplane at age 24 shortly after I relocated from New York to California. It was a brand new 1968 Cessna 182 Skylane that I picked up at the Cessna delivery center in Wichita, and flew home to...
by Joe Godfrey | Sep 19, 2018 | SavvyAnalysis Puzzlers
Sometimes when I see something odd in real-time engine data during a flight, I can almost hear the voice of Vic Perrin saying “There is nothing wrong with your TV set. We are controlling transmission. We will control the numbers you see. You are about to...
by Mike Busch | Sep 1, 2018 | AOPA Pilot Magazine, Magazine Articles, Uncategorized
They can be deadly if the pilot hasn’t been taught what to do The release of my book Mike Busch on Engines prompted lots of reader correspondence. One particularly interesting email came from the owner of a 2007 Cessna Turbo Stationair (T210H)—I’ll call him...
by Joe Godfrey | Aug 18, 2018 | SavvyAnalysis Puzzlers
The Farmer’s Almanac says that the phrase Dog Days wasn’t originally about canines panting in the heat, it was about the appearance of Sirius the Dog Star and its reminder to ancient Egyptians about the annual flooding of the Nile. I like the dog days...
by Mike Busch | Aug 1, 2018 | AOPA Pilot Magazine, Magazine Articles
It has been a lot like watching paint dry I recently completed work on my second book, a 500-page monster titled Mike Busch on Engines (available on Amazon). It was a yearlong effort that involved reviewing hundreds of my past articles about piston aircraft engines,...
