Ask the A&Ps
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Experts Mike Busch, Paul New, and Colleen Sterling answer your toughest aviation maintenance questions. Submit questions to [email protected]. New episodes are released the first and fifteenth of every month.
Episodes (203)
"This guy is on his own, he's a test pilot"
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Mar 15, 20241:04:36pending
"Let us know how the exorcism goes"
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Mar 1, 202459:21pending
"The breather is a slobber pot"
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Feb 15, 202455:08pending
"Think of the prop control as a gear shift"
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Feb 1, 202451:37pending
"Major and minor is in the eye of the beholder"
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Jan 15, 20241:00:56pending
"It's not good form to jam the throttle forward"
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Jan 1, 20241:00:24pending
"We call it an Italian tune-up"
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Dec 15, 202356:25pending
"Use whatever time runs the slowest"
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Dec 1, 202357:18pending
"You can't fully pickle it"
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Nov 15, 20231:06:57pending
"Cleaning injectors causes more problems than it solves"
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Nov 1, 202356:42pending
"Why don't you just fix the problem?"
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Oct 16, 20231:02:57pending
"It's not the mechanic's job to make flying cheaper"
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Oct 1, 202356:49pending
"Inspections are an imperfect process"
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Sep 15, 202347:57pending
"Don't attack anything with tools"
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Sep 1, 202353:04pending
Live from Airventure 2023
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Aug 15, 202349:15pending
"My airplane is so clean you can eat off it"
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Aug 1, 20231:00:58pending
"The only that thing that can cause CHT to rise that fast is pre-ignition"
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Jul 1, 20231:01:49pending
"I'm a total turbocharging bigot"
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Jun 1, 20231:14:39pending
"Pop that cowling off and squirt away"
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May 1, 20231:06:13pending
"This is a classic infant mortality failure"
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Apr 1, 20231:12:09pending
"The airplane looks like it's having brain surgery"
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Mar 1, 202357:16pending
"You may have to go to a different shop"
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Feb 1, 202351:51pending
"There are critters living in there"
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Jan 1, 20231:00:28pending
"You have two options and a top overhaul isn't one of them"
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Dec 1, 20221:03:10pending
"All engines deserve an engine monitor in their Christmas stocking"
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Nov 1, 202253:15pending
"We're card-carrying members of overthinkers anonymous"
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Oct 1, 202257:19pending
"I'm a choir boy in the church of lean of peak"
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Sep 1, 202256:01pending
"I don't have a baby monitor on the engine"
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Aug 1, 202248:42pending
Live from Airventure 2022
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Jul 28, 202241:41pending
"I'm a reformed shock cooling worrier"
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Jul 1, 202247:47pending
"EGTs are imaginary numbers"
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Jun 1, 202244:29pending
"Use the TLAR system. That looks about right"
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May 1, 202252:25pending
"Your airplane may look like the molting hide of an animal"
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Apr 1, 202250:27pending
"We don't check the accuracy of your fuel gauges"
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Mar 1, 202255:08pending
"You'll ruin a set of clothes for sure"
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Feb 1, 202255:59pending
"It's not our job to be the safety police"
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Jan 1, 202254:46pending
"That little cap doesn't hold the wings on"
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Dec 1, 202143:54pending
"Only a CFI would ask a question like that"
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Nov 1, 202150:49pending
"Compression readings are garbage"
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Oct 1, 20211:01:35pending
"Why can't we do something simple like clone an engine?"
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Sep 1, 202149:33pending
"There's no free lunch in aviation"
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Aug 1, 202143:33pending
"An oil filter inspection is non-invasive, unless you're an oil filter"
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Jul 1, 202150:14pending
"About the half the time, reported cracked cylinders aren't cracked"
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Jun 1, 202150:42pending
"Heavy detonation is normally a self-correcting event"
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May 1, 202142:46pending
"I don't see anything that makes me want to attack the engine with tools"
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Apr 1, 202154:00pending
'If it moves, squirt it with something'
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Mar 1, 202146:31pending
'We just saved your engine'
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Feb 1, 202150:03pending
"Did you float the dog?"
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Jan 1, 202156:27pending
'I went to the church of lean of peak'
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Dec 1, 202043:52pending
'You're not going to fall out of the sky because the camshaft wears'
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Nov 1, 202054:32pending