by Joe Godfrey | Feb 9, 2022 | SavvyAnalysis Puzzlers
Are you playing Wordle? It’s fascinating to me how this puzzle has caught on as we look for distractions from that other 5-letter word that begins with C and ends with D and has two non-adjacent vowels. What has this got to do with analysis? Well, sometimes...
by Mike Busch | Feb 1, 2022 | AOPA Pilot Magazine, Magazine Articles
Does your engine REALLY need to be euthanized? “I’m in trouble. Can you help?” The owner of the vintage Mooney was obviously stressed. He identified himself as a highly experienced military pilot but a first-time aircraft owner who’d recently flown his airplane...
by Joe Godfrey | Jan 15, 2022 | SavvyAnalysis Puzzlers
Recently I saw an ad for a furniture store encouraging me to “kickback in style”. I remember hearing that word a lot as a term for relaxation when I moved to southern California in the early 80s. Before moving, I had read that word a lot in the Chicago...
by Mike Busch | Jan 1, 2022 | AOPA Pilot Magazine, Magazine Articles
Low compression doesn’t always require cylinder removal Sam’s 1979 Piper PA-34-200T Seneca II was in the shop, and Sam was not happy. The shop had just done a compression test on the plane’s two Continental TSIO-360-EB3B engines and had given Sam some unwelcome news…...