Ask the A&Ps
Experts Mike Busch, Paul New, and Colleen Sterling answer your toughest aviation maintenance questions. Submit questions to podcasts@aopa.org. New episodes are released the first and fifteenth of every month.
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"Use whatever time runs the slowest"
When the tachometers don't agree, which one do you pick?
55 min
52
"You can't fully pickle it"
A curiously rough running engine, another that's cursed, and one that needs to be preserved are on the agenda.
65 min
53
"Cleaning injectors causes more problems than i...
55 min
54
"Why don't you just fix the problem?"
Cold-weather flying, radio issues, and how to become an A&P
61 min
55
"It's not the mechanic's job to make flying che...
A wonky compass, lean of peak advice, and liabilities of being a mechanic
55 min
56
"Inspections are an imperfect process"
46 min
57
"Don't attack anything with tools"
How to hot start, a faulty tach, and unnecessary cylinder removals
51 min
58
Live from Airventure 2023
Mike, Paul, and Colleen take live questions from this year's Oshkosh
48 min
59
"My airplane is so clean you can eat off it"
Washing during annual, turbocharging problems, how to start an airplane, and more
59 min
60
"The only that thing that can cause CHT to rise...
Engines are blowing up all over in this latest epiosde
60 min
61
"I'm a total turbocharging bigot"
Turbocharging versus non, engine stumbles, improper fuel levels and more
73 min
62
"Pop that cowling off and squirt away"
New engines, prop stops, and warbirds
64 min
63
"This is a classic infant mortality failure"
Digging deep into two new important ADs, engine monitors, and more
70 min
64
"The airplane looks like it's having brain surg...
55 min
65
"You may have to go to a different shop"
Convincing an owner not to euthanize his engine, super cold cylinders, and fun with oxygen
50 min
66
"There are critters living in there"
58 min
67
"You have two options and a top overhaul isn't ...
Morning sickness, slow Skyhawks, supply chain problems, and more
61 min
68
"All engines deserve an engine monitor in their...
51 min
69
"We're card-carrying members of overthinkers an...
55 min
70
"I'm a choir boy in the church of lean of peak"
54 min
71
"I don't have a baby monitor on the engine"
Mike, Paul, and Colleen discuss hot cylinders, leaning technique, and lots of lightbulbs used in testing.
47 min
72
Live from Airventure 2022
41 min
73
"I'm a reformed shock cooling worrier"
46 min
74
"EGTs are imaginary numbers"
Oil all over the nose, cylinders that are too clean, and bush propeller repairs. Mike, Paul, and Colleen handle it all this month.
42 min
75
"Use the TLAR system. That looks about right"
50 min