by Mike Busch | Jan 1, 2018 | AOPA Pilot Magazine, Magazine Articles
When aircraft problems occur, we always want an explanation but don’t always get one I receive thousands of emails from aircraft owners each year, but this one was unusual. It was nearly 3,000 words long—twice the length of this article. The 7,500-hour CFI who wrote...
by Mike Busch | Dec 1, 2017 | AOPA Pilot Magazine, Magazine Articles
Industry and the FAA meet to discuss GA piston engine issues In mid-September 2017, I was invited to participate in a two-day “GA Engine Summit” meeting in Burlington, Massachusetts—about 30 minutes’ drive northwest of Boston. This meeting was a long-awaited sequel to...
by Mike Busch | Nov 1, 2017 | AOPA Pilot Magazine, Magazine Articles
Can a mechanic hold an aircraft hostage? Or just part of it? The mechanic who phoned me sounded agitated. He explained that he’d been an A&P for quite a while, but had earned his IA recently and was relatively new to the business of doing annual inspections. An...
by Mike Busch | Oct 1, 2017 | AOPA Pilot Magazine, Magazine Articles
Thanks to teamwork, tens of thousands of aircraft owners dodged a devastating bullet As I write this, the aviation blogosphere and Twitterverse are abuzz over the near-disaster at San Francisco International Airport, when an arriving Air Canada A320 on a night visual...
by Mike Busch | Sep 1, 2017 | AOPA Pilot Magazine, Magazine Articles
Must manufacturer’s maintenance guidance be followed? Have you ever had your mechanic tell you something like this: “It has been six years since your propeller was last overhauled, so we’re going to have to overhaul it this year as required by Hartzell.” “Your...
