by Mike Busch | Jul 16, 2025 | AOPA Pilot Magazine, Magazine Articles
I last wrote about Project GADfly in the November 2022 issue of AOPA Pilot (“When Data Doesn’t Look Right”). This was a first peek at an R&D effort here at Savvy Aviation to harness artificial intelligence to analyze the 10,000 flights of digital engine...
by Mike Busch | Mar 20, 2025 | AOPA Pilot Magazine, Magazine Articles
For 20 years I’ve been preaching about the benefits of using borescope inspections as the gold standard for assessing cylinder condition. Yet we still see far too much dependence on the traditional (and unreliable) differential compression test. Mechanics are removing...
by Mike Busch | Mar 20, 2025 | AOPA Pilot Magazine, Magazine Articles
Picture this: For several months, you’ve been suffering from debilitating pain that seems to run from your lower back and radiate into your right upper leg. You report this to your primary care physician, who refers you to an orthopedic surgeon. The orthopod asks you...
by Mike Busch | Mar 20, 2025 | AOPA Pilot Magazine, Magazine Articles
My 80th Christmas was a memorable one. I had been feeling guilty about all the time my poor airplane had been sitting unloved in the hangar during the last months of 2024, and I decided that Christmas week would be a great time to do some serious flying. I’d been...
by Mike Busch | Mar 20, 2025 | AOPA Pilot Magazine, Magazine Articles
Like many of you, I’m an aircraft owner. I have been one for a long time. I bought my first airplane—a Cessna 182—in 1968 when I was 24 years old. Four years later at age 28, I traded up to a Bellanca 17-30A Super Viking. Then at age 43, I upgraded to a Cessna Turbo...
