by Joe Godfrey | Mar 10, 2026 | Uncategorized
One recent day a series of engine data from a Piper Turbo Saratoga showed up for analysis as part of a prebuy examination. With regular (non-prebuy) analysis we’re looking for things that need fixing and in the case of a pre-annual test profile we’re...
by Joe Godfrey | Feb 12, 2026 | SavvyAnalysis Puzzlers
Shakespeare loved a good pun. Even he might groan at this one. I wanted to write about magnetos and I recently saw “Hamnet” and you know the rest. Usually the format of the Puzzler is I present a scenario and we work through the decision tree to figure out...
by Joe Godfrey | Jan 15, 2026 | SavvyAnalysis Puzzlers
Can you tell I made a New Year’s resolution to kick my vocabulary up a notch? Perspicacious is a hard word to work into conversation but it pretty accurately describes a Puzzler reader. I like this definition — showing an ability to notice and understand...
by Joe Godfrey | Dec 19, 2025 | SavvyAnalysis Puzzlers
Technically the title is The Christmas Song but when a musician calls it on a gig it’s Chestnuts — as in roasting on an open fire. It’s a good lyric full of holiday imagery and it’s a great tune by a guy better known as a singer, arranger and...
by Joe Godfrey | Nov 13, 2025 | SavvyAnalysis Puzzlers
When my grandmother would say “He sure sold you a bill of goods” there wasn’t anything good about it. The dictionary says the phrase has two meanings. The first is literal, meaning a list of merchandise. But the second meeting seems to be the one...
