by Mike Busch | May 1, 2019 | AOPA Pilot Magazine, Magazine Articles
Before doing something expensive or invasive, slow down “My Cirrus SR22’s oil pressure has been slowly decreasing,” reported Oliver, one of my company’s managed maintenance clients. “At full power the pressure used to be 41-43 PSI, but over the past three months it...
by Joe Godfrey | Apr 23, 2019 | SavvyAnalysis Puzzlers
These days it’s call throwing shade. When I came up, good jazz musicians had a nice-but-direct way of telling wanna be jazz musicians that they weren’t up to the task – “don’t give up your day gig.” Dr. Graeme Smart has a day gig...
by Mike Busch | Apr 1, 2019 | AOPA Pilot Magazine, Magazine Articles
Not preheating a cold engine is a effective way to damage it Preheating is important. A single cold start without proper preheating can produce more wear on your engine in less than a minute than 500 hours of normal cruise operation I’m often asked how cold it...
by Joe Godfrey | Mar 18, 2019 | SavvyAnalysis Puzzlers
I have been flying my Bellanca Viking for 29 years now. I have had two unexplained events – one electrical and one combustion – both in day VMC. I was alone for both. The electrical event was on approach to a central California airport with a tower. I had...
by Mike Busch | Mar 1, 2019 | AOPA Pilot Magazine, Magazine Articles
Reviving an engine that has been inactive for months or years Piston aircraft engines hate to sit unflown. During lengthy periods of disuse, the protective oil film strips off critical surfaces like cylinder walls, cam lobes and tappet faces, exposing them to risk of...
