by Mike Busch | Sep 11, 2015 | EAA Sport Aviation Magazine, Magazine Articles
Suppressing the urge to overreact to and overkill problems. The Bonanza owner encountered an engine problem 11 hours after his aircraft came out of annual. He had crossed the Sierra Nevada Mountains VFR at 12,500 feet westbound enroute to the Bay Area, and was...
by Mike Busch | Aug 15, 2015 | EAA Sport Aviation Magazine, Magazine Articles
Cessna gets caught with its hand in the FAA’s cookie jar. On February 10, 2014, the Cessna Aircraft Company did something quite unprecedented in the history of piston GA: It published a revision to the service manual for cantilever-wing Cessna 210-series airplanes...
by Mike Busch | Aug 1, 2015 | EAA Sport Aviation Magazine, Magazine Articles
Who decides whether or not your aircraft is airworthy? By Mike Busch My column in the May 2015 issue of EAA Sport Aviation, titled “Fix It Now…Or Fix It Later,” discussed how to deal with mechanical problems on the road. It offered some specific advice about how...
by Mike Busch | Jul 1, 2015 | EAA Sport Aviation Magazine, Magazine Articles
It’s riskier business than most owners or A&Ps realize. Regular readers of this column know how I feel about changing cylinders in the field. I hate it. Especially when several cylinders are changed at one time; this is risky business. Changing them all (the...
by Mike Busch | Jun 1, 2015 | EAA Sport Aviation Magazine, Magazine Articles
Clearing up confusion about aircraft mods. You want to modify your certificated aircraft. Let’s say it’s something simple like adding an extra cigarette lighter socket to power your portable GPS or cellphone charger. Or installing an external mirror so you can verify...
