by Mike Busch | Jan 1, 2017 | AOPA Pilot Magazine, Magazine Articles
Analyzing data from a million GA flights can yield interesting results. Pilots have long suspected that when it comes to headwinds and tailwinds, the deck is stacked against them. I think the late Bob Blodget, Senior Editor of FLYING Magazine, captured how most...
by Mike Busch | Dec 1, 2016 | AOPA Pilot Magazine, Magazine Articles
If a plane is listed for sale cheap, there’s always a reason. “Hey Mike, this is Danny in Louisiana,” read the email. Danny is one of my clients who used to own a Cirrus SR22 and now flies a Cessna 182 Katmai STOL conversion. “Would you look at this 1965 Cessna 310I...
by Mike Busch | Nov 1, 2016 | AOPA Pilot Magazine, Magazine Articles
When the pilot of a round-the-world flight found himself AOG in Iceland with electrical issues, remote diagnosis saved the day. Ademilola “Lola” Odujinrin has a passion for aviation. He’s 37 years old, resides in Nigeria with his wife and two school-age children, and...
by Mike Busch | Oct 1, 2016 | AOPA Pilot Magazine, Magazine Articles
A&Ps are trained to find things wrong with your aircraft. But there’s a time and place for that, and it comes once a year. It was the week before AirVenture 2016. Normally, I would never perform any maintenance on my trusty Cessna 310 immediately before departing...
by Mike Busch | Sep 1, 2016 | AOPA Pilot Magazine, Magazine Articles
Fixing is usually the easiest part of aircraft maintenance. Figuring out what’s wrong is usually the hardest part. By Mike Busch | A&P/IA A funny thing happened on my way to Milwaukee… It was 2013 and I was flying my trusty 1979 Cessna T310R to speak at the...
