by Mike Busch | Nov 1, 2014 | EAA Sport Aviation Magazine, Magazine Articles
If you’re buying an aircraft, here’s how to structure the prebuy. Over the past six months, my company’s prebuy activity has gone right through the roof. We’ve been responding to 30 to 50 prebuy requests a month, perhaps four times as many as we were seeing a year...
by Mike Busch | Oct 1, 2014 | EAA Sport Aviation Magazine, Magazine Articles
Why are our piston aircraft engines so @#$%*! inefficient? Our piston aircraft engines convert chemical energy into mechanical work, but they don’t do it very efficiently. It turns out that only about one-third of the energy contained in the 100LL we burn winds up...
by Mike Busch | Sep 1, 2014 | EAA Sport Aviation Magazine, Magazine Articles
“To err is human…” but when humans make mistakes working on aircraft, bad things can happen. During the century since the Wright Brothers first flew, the predominant perpetrator in aircraft accidents has shifted dramatically from machine to human. Today, human error...
by Mike Busch | Aug 1, 2014 | EAA Sport Aviation Magazine, Magazine Articles
If your mechanic seems over-cautious and self-protective in his approach to maintaining your airplane, he has good reason. Mechanics have always been subject to FAA sanctions: certificate suspension or revocation, fines, warning notices, letters of correction, and...
by Mike Busch | Jul 1, 2014 | EAA Sport Aviation Magazine, Magazine Articles
How does an IA deal with a situation like this? The maintenance officer of a small flying club asked if my company would be willing to manage the maintenance of the club’s 1976 Cessna 172M. The airplane had been flying about 200 hours a year, and had faced a number of...
