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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"Major and minor is in the eye of the beholder"
Can you make your own electronic components? The experts discuss.
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"It's not good form to jam the throttle forward"
How to use a borescope, best throttle practices, and keeping water out of the tanks
58 min
53
"We call it an Italian tune-up"
Valve clatter, damage history that isn't, why POH numbers change, and more
54 min
54
"Use whatever time runs the slowest"
When the tachometers don't agree, which one do you pick?
55 min
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"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
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"Cleaning injectors causes more problems than i...
55 min
57
"Why don't you just fix the problem?"
Cold-weather flying, radio issues, and how to become an A&P
61 min
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"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
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"Inspections are an imperfect process"
46 min
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"Don't attack anything with tools"
How to hot start, a faulty tach, and unnecessary cylinder removals
51 min
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Live from Airventure 2023
Mike, Paul, and Colleen take live questions from this year's Oshkosh
48 min
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"My airplane is so clean you can eat off it"
Washing during annual, turbocharging problems, how to start an airplane, and more
59 min
63
"The only that thing that can cause CHT to rise...
Engines are blowing up all over in this latest epiosde
60 min
64
"I'm a total turbocharging bigot"
Turbocharging versus non, engine stumbles, improper fuel levels and more
73 min
65
"Pop that cowling off and squirt away"
New engines, prop stops, and warbirds
64 min
66
"This is a classic infant mortality failure"
Digging deep into two new important ADs, engine monitors, and more
70 min
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"The airplane looks like it's having brain surg...
55 min
68
"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
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"There are critters living in there"
58 min
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"You have two options and a top overhaul isn't ...
Morning sickness, slow Skyhawks, supply chain problems, and more
61 min
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"All engines deserve an engine monitor in their...
51 min
72
"We're card-carrying members of overthinkers an...
55 min
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"I'm a choir boy in the church of lean of peak"
54 min
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"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
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Live from Airventure 2022
41 min