by Mike Busch | Dec 11, 2023 | Savvy Stories
Trace owns a 1979 Cessna 182 Skylane. It’s his first airplane. During his first year as an aircraft owner, Trace devoured everything he could find about GA airplane maintenance. He read Mike’s books and watched a bunch of his EAA webinars. In fact,...
by Mike Busch | Dec 11, 2023 | Savvy Stories
Tim bases his 1975 Cessna T210 in the Virgin Islands, and uses it mostly to fly throughout the Caribbean and sometimes to Florida. He first popped up on our radar screen when he called the SavvyBreakdown 24/7 hotline from his mobile phone. “I just landed in Antigua,”...
by Mike Busch | Dec 11, 2023 | Savvy Stories
The exhaust valve is by far the most likely component of a piston aircraft engine to fail catastrophically in flight. When an exhaust valve fails, combustion ceases in the associated cylinder. The engine loses power and starts running rough. In a single-engine...
by Mike Busch | Dec 11, 2023 | Savvy Stories
Marc was the owner of a 1974 Cessna 414 who recently came to the conclusion that it was more aircraft than he really needed, with a voracious appetite for fuel and an overabundance of moving parts, many of which are fabricated from unobtanium or unaffordium. So, he...
by Mike Busch | Dec 11, 2023 | Savvy Stories
“I flew my Skylane about three hours from Pompano to Tallahassee to drop off my daughter,” Alvin posted on his SavvyAnalysis ticket. “After refueling, I taxied out to take off for home. Although the plane performed beautifully on the flight to Tallahassee, on...
