by Joe Godfrey | Oct 16, 2025 | SavvyAnalysis Puzzlers
I’ve been training new analysts recently, and I thought I would share some thoughts about continuity. Of course signal continuity is important for sensors and probes so we have reliable data to perform actionable analysis. I’ve made this point before and...
by Mike Busch | Oct 15, 2025 | AOPA Pilot Magazine, Magazine Articles
I got my first car when I was 17 years old. It was a green 1947 Plymouth sedan, a hand-me-down from my parents that they used as an excuse to buy a brand new 1961 Chrysler.I remember back then that the gasoline was heavily leaded, the engine oils were refined from...
by Mike Busch | Sep 15, 2025 | AOPA Pilot Magazine, Magazine Articles
In my column in the June 2025 issue of AOPA Pilot (“Borescope Initiative”), I reported on the initiative we launched on January 1, 2024 to promote and improve the use of borescopes as the gold standard for assessing cylinder condition for piston aircraft...
by Joe Godfrey | Sep 14, 2025 | SavvyAnalysis Puzzlers
Years ago, when we noticed that one of the data signatures of a burning valve was an oscillating pattern in the EGT trace, we got excited about the prospect of setting up automatic scans for other parameters. Would we be able to write a program that would identify a...
by Joe Godfrey | Aug 16, 2025 | SavvyAnalysis Puzzlers
It’s one of the great lines from a movie filled with great lines. Wallace Shawn was the perfect actor to deliver it, and now it’s hard to say the word without putting his unique cartoon-like spin on it. And now a quick pivot to engine data. Sometimes the...
by Mike Busch | Jul 16, 2025 | AOPA Pilot Magazine, Magazine Articles
I last wrote about Project GADfly in the November 2022 issue of AOPA Pilot (“When Data Doesn’t Look Right”). This was a first peek at an R&D effort here at Savvy Aviation to harness artificial intelligence to analyze the 10,000 flights of digital engine...
by Joe Godfrey | Jul 12, 2025 | SavvyAnalysis Puzzlers
I have written about this before, every two years since 2015, and with lots of new clients and some new services since last time, it seemed like a good time for a biennial review. The comedians are fond of saying, “Timing is everything.” I think the quality of the...
by Joe Godfrey | Jun 13, 2025 | SavvyAnalysis Puzzlers
Each month, my colleagues and I tag some of our tickets as puzzler candidates. You never know at the beginning of the month what you’ll wind up with as the deadline approaches. The worst case scenario would be a collection of similar anomalies – like...
by Joe Godfrey | May 15, 2025 | SavvyAnalysis Puzzlers
Knock knock. Who’s there? An intermittent knocking sound that only happens in certain flight configurations and is probably not a safety of flight issue but could become one because it’s distracting the pilot from his primary job of “aviate.”...
by Joe Godfrey | Apr 16, 2025 | SavvyAnalysis Puzzlers
One of my favorite movie scenes is early in The Hunt for Red October when sonar expert Jonesy tries to convince sub Captain Mancuso that a sound pattern was mechanical and not “whales humping”. Spoiler alert: it’s the Red October’s advanced...
