by Joe Godfrey | Jan 20, 2023 | SavvyAnalysis Puzzlers
When we started Savvy Analysis Pro ten years ago, we wondered how long it would take before deep learning and artificial intelligence would take over and push the human analysts to the curb. In those ten years, we’ve rolled out Report Cards, Trend Analysis,...
by Mike Busch | Jan 18, 2023 | AOPA Pilot Magazine, Magazine Articles
Don’t use exhaust gas temperature as a leaning reference I respond to at least 100 queries from aircraft owners and pilots each week. At least a dozen of those are questions or requests for advice about leaning, and most of them relate to EGT. A few common ones: Q: My...
by Joe Godfrey | Dec 19, 2022 | SavvyAnalysis Puzzlers
Chapter 6 of the AIM covers emergency procedures, including the difference between distress – like fire, mechanical failure, oil on the windscreen, or structural damage – and urgency – like being lost, low on gas, encountering dangerous weather, or...
by Mike Busch | Dec 1, 2022 | AOPA Pilot Magazine, Magazine Articles
Situational awareness requires being aware of your aircraft’s systems, too. On Saturday, August 26, 2022, a young CFI took off from Monterey, California in a Cessna 172 on a “Discovery Flight.” His passengers were a young couple, with the man occupying the left front...
by Joe Godfrey | Nov 14, 2022 | SavvyAnalysis Puzzlers
Good news! They’re making Spinal Tap 2, with plans to release it in 2024 – 40 years after the first one. Of all the great quotable lines in ST1, it’s hard to top “these go to eleven”. Sometimes we get a set of screwy engine data that...
by Mike Busch | Nov 1, 2022 | AOPA Pilot Magazine, Magazine Articles
Using AI and deep learning to detect anomalous engine monitor data Nowadays more than half of the piston GA fleet is equipped with some sort of recording digital engine monitor. Older ones tend to be fairly primitive and record just EGTs and CHTs and not much else....
by Joe Godfrey | Oct 15, 2022 | SavvyAnalysis Puzzlers
A lot of analysis requests begin with “Something bad just happened and we had to divert and land. Is there something in the data that would’ve told us this was about to happen?” Our first reaction is usually relief – that the pilot got on the ground...
by Mike Busch | Oct 1, 2022 | AOPA Pilot Magazine, Magazine Articles
Dealing with mechanicals away from home base. Every aircraft owner dreads a mechanical breakdown while away from home on a trip. In the five and a half decades that I have owned an aircraft—I bought my first plane in 1968 and have always flown lots of long trips—I’ve...
by Joe Godfrey | Sep 16, 2022 | SavvyAnalysis Puzzlers
Baseball has the cycle – single, double, triple and home run. What would that be for an analyst working a shift? Clogged injector is probably the single. Bad spark plug is probably the double. Let’s say the triple is a stuck valve. And the homer is a...
by Joe Godfrey | Aug 13, 2022 | SavvyAnalysis Puzzlers
Apparently the 80/20 rule is also known as the Pareto Principle. Broadly applied, it means that 20% of your activities will account for 80% of your outcomes. In my previous careers in advertising and education, I would contend that 80% of stuff I spent my time on were...
