Airplane Owner Maintenance - By Dean Showalter
By Dean Showalter
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Episodes: 125
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A podcast devoted to airplane owners and the maintenance of their airplanes.
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240 – MEI Check Ride Struggles
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May 07, 2024 |
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239 – When Your “Perfect” Airplane Gets a Prebuy
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Apr 13, 2024 |
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238 – Check Ride Thoughts & Piper Door Stop Repair
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Apr 05, 2024 |
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237 – Checkride Butterflies!
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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236 – Spare Parts and Tools to Carry in Your Airplane
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Feb 02, 2024 |
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235 – Ugly Propellers and What to Do About Them
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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234 – Why the Airplane’s Heater Didn’t Light Last Winter
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Sep 23, 2023 |
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233 – Mike’s Owner Assisted Annual on His F33A Bonanza
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Sep 08, 2023 |
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232 – A Piper, A Pineapple, and a Motorcycle
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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231 – Piper Comanche Weird Electrical Problem and Seeping Oil Drain Valve
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Jul 31, 2023 |
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230 “Phantom Cracks” in Airplane Engine Cylinders
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Jul 17, 2023 |
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229 – Cessna 206 Alternator Not Working
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Jul 08, 2023 |
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228 – Saving a Cylinder on Dan & Jeanne’s Bonanza
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Jul 01, 2023 |
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227 – Electrical Chaos When the Landing Light was Turned On
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Jun 25, 2023 |
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226 – Piper Lance Lands at SHD After In-Flight Electrical Failure
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Jun 17, 2023 |
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225 – Obscure ATC Intersection Mystery Solved (It’s UDIYU!)
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Jun 09, 2023 |
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224 – Jim’s Exhaust Valve Rescue on his Cessna 182 Engine
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Jun 02, 2023 |
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223 – Piper Cherokee Annual and Other Maintenance Adventures
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May 26, 2023 |
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222 – How an Engine Cylinder Went From 25/80 to 75/80!
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May 13, 2023 |
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221 – Maui Adventures in the Air and on the Ground!
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Apr 21, 2023 |
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220 – An Epic Working Vacation to Maui!
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Apr 16, 2023 |
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219 – I Installed New Brake Linings and the Wheel Would Not Turn!
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Mar 24, 2023 |
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218 – Engine Oil was Seeping Out of the Top Cowling
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Mar 17, 2023 |
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217 – Does Your Magneto Have Any Broken Teeth?
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Mar 10, 2023 |
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216 – WHY is the alternator not working?!
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Mar 03, 2023 |
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215 – Vacuum Pump Adventure with Clark, my Airline Captain Friend
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Feb 24, 2023 |
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214 – An Unacceptably Low Cylinder Compression
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Feb 17, 2023 |
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213 – Stellar Advice for YOUR Aviation Career
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Feb 10, 2023 |
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212 – Is Your Airplane’s Battery Too Old?
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Feb 03, 2023 |
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211 – A Cold Flight in an Aerostar!
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Jan 27, 2023 |
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210 – Cessna 172 Engine Install / Good ATC Talk
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Jan 20, 2023 |
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209 – Responses from Airline Pilots, and Finishing a Bonanza Annual
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Jan 13, 2023 |
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208 – Back in the Maintenance Shop and Off to JFK!
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Jan 05, 2023 |
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207 – A Fantastic Conversation With My Son Seth!
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Dec 17, 2022 |
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206 – Thanksgiving, Deer Hunting, and Discount Codes
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Nov 24, 2022 |
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205 – My First Landing at Hannah Field in a Cessna 150
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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204 – FlyRight King Air 350 Simulator Training was Awesome!
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Oct 15, 2022 |
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203 – Dean’s Midlife Aviation Transition!
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Sep 05, 2022 |
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202 – Pax River Navy Test Pilot: Trace Bowen
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Jun 15, 2022 |
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201 – SureFly Ignition Installation
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May 14, 2022 |
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200 – My Recent Flight Review and Other Adventures
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Apr 09, 2022 |
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199 – A Bulging Exhaust – Change it, or not?
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Mar 12, 2022 |
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198 – Be Careful About In-flight Troubleshooting!
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Feb 25, 2022 |
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197 – When He Put the Gear Up the Right Alternator Quit
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Feb 19, 2022 |
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196 – Joe’s #5 Cylinder Mystery
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Jan 23, 2022 |
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195 – Is it Time to Tear That Engine Apart?
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Dec 31, 2021 |
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194 – All About Airplane Prebuys with Adam Sipe
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Dec 10, 2021 |
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193 – How Did this Starter housing Break?
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Dec 04, 2021 |
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192 – We Always Knew He Had A Screw Loose!
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Nov 20, 2021 |
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191 – A Tale of Two Exhaust Valves
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Nov 14, 2021 |
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190 – The Cessna 172 is Flying Again!
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Oct 21, 2021 |
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189 – Cessna 172 Squawks Part Two
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Oct 15, 2021 |
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188 – Cessna 172 Squawks and Repairs
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Oct 08, 2021 |
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187 – Wonders and Woes of a Cirrus SR22
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Sep 18, 2021 |
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186 – Diamond DA40 Squawks & a new Bonanza Friend!
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Aug 28, 2021 |
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185 – Standby Alternator System and Other Fun Stuff
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Aug 20, 2021 |
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184 – My Oshkosh 2021 Adventure!
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Aug 13, 2021 |
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183 – I’m Bringing an Engine Cylinder to Oshkosh!
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Jul 24, 2021 |
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182 – Plane Lands in Farm Field After Engine Failure
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Jul 10, 2021 |
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181 – Strut Webinar Replay and Video Course Are Ready!
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Jul 03, 2021 |
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180 – Almost Time for Oshkosh 2021!
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Jun 26, 2021 |
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179 – Help! I Took A Turbo Apart
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Jun 19, 2021 |
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178 – Propeller Mystery Solved!
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Jun 11, 2021 |
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177 – An Out-of-Control Propeller!
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Jun 05, 2021 |
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176 – Lessons From the Best Kind of Airplane Owner
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May 21, 2021 |
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175 – Shock Strut Servicing Course Coming Soon!
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May 08, 2021 |
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174 – Turbo-Normalized Bonanza Exhaust Valve Rescue!
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Apr 30, 2021 |
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173 – What’s Happening With Cylinder #1 in my Mooney M20J?
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Apr 10, 2021 |
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172 – A Perplexing Low Cylinder Compression on a Piper Saratoga
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Mar 26, 2021 |
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171 – Bad Gas in the Cockpit!
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Mar 12, 2021 |
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170 – Eddie’s Jabiru Cylinder Compression: From 0/80 to 70/80!
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Mar 06, 2021 |
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169 – Transformed Interiors with Autumn Elizabeth Design
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Feb 19, 2021 |
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168 – Things I Found on an A36 Bonanza
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Feb 12, 2021 |
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167 – Shop Towels in Wrong Places
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Feb 06, 2021 |
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166 – A Strong and Humble Blue Angels Pilot: Jim Cox
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Jan 29, 2021 |
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165 – A Shop Towel in the Engine! Don’t Do What I Did!
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Jan 22, 2021 |
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164 – Airplanes, Motorcycles, and Bob’s Grass Runway
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Dec 18, 2020 |
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163 – Gear Warning Light Mystery
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Dec 06, 2020 |
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162 – Giving Thanks for my Good Friend Jonathan Brush
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Nov 26, 2020 |
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161 – Tobin’s Cherokee Six
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Nov 21, 2020 |
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160 – Jessica Spangler Becoming an A&P in Cameroon
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Nov 09, 2020 |
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159 – In the Approach Path of a Boeing 737!
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Oct 31, 2020 |
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158 – Starters, Starter Adapters, and Starter Solenoids
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Oct 25, 2020 |
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157 – Valve lapping, shock mounts, and vacuum issues
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Oct 17, 2020 |
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156 – The Weirdest Vacuum System Problem I’ve Ever Seen
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Oct 05, 2020 |
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155 – My Retractable Landing Gear is Not Moving!
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Sep 26, 2020 |
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154 – If I Looked at YOUR Airplane, What Would I Discover?
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Sep 19, 2020 |
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153 – A Flying and Maintenance Adventure at Ravenswood WV
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Aug 29, 2020 |
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152 – My Bonanza Door Popped Open, and My Wife Won’t Fly With Me!
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Aug 24, 2020 |
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151 – Things I Found On Tom’s Piper Cherokee
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Aug 07, 2020 |
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150 – John and Leslie Caubble’s Aviation Journey!
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Jul 24, 2020 |
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149 – Cessna 172 Q & A with John and Leslie Caubble
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Jul 17, 2020 |
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148 – $200 Annual Inspection with Jim Weir
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Jul 09, 2020 |
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147 – Aram Basmadjian and His V-Tail Bonanza
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Jul 04, 2020 |
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146 – Fixing an Obscure Oil Leak
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Jun 27, 2020 |
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145 – Seatbelt Airbags and Transient Voltage Suppressors
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Jun 16, 2020 |
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144 – Joe Godfrey, Engine Data, and Savvy Analysis
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Jun 06, 2020 |
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143 – Oh No! A Lycoming Exhaust Stud Pulled Out!
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May 30, 2020 |
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142 – Fixing a Stranded Cessna 172XP and Flying it Home
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May 16, 2020 |
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141 – Aviate, Navigate, Communicate, is Exactly Backwards!
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May 01, 2020 |
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140 – I Traveled to Wyoming and Canada this Week and Learned About Four Different Airplanes!
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Apr 18, 2020 |
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139 – My Alternator Came Apart… Should I Also Replace the Voltage Regulator?
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Apr 04, 2020 |
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138 – Mike White and his 1948 Piper Stinson
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Mar 27, 2020 |
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137 – IA Seminar Borescoping and Exhaust Valve Stories
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Mar 15, 2020 |
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136 – Engine Oil Leak: How Much is Too Much?
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Feb 22, 2020 |
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135 – Carl Valeri: Airline Pilot, Piper Pilot, and Aviation Careers Coach
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Feb 09, 2020 |
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134 – An Unlikely Cause for a Hot Mag on a Cirrus
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Feb 02, 2020 |
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133 – The Firetrucks Rolled When a Navajo’s Landing Gear Did Not Extend
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Jan 26, 2020 |
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132 – Real Inflight Magneto Failures & Troubleshooting
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Jan 17, 2020 |
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131 – Drew Wright’s Cessna 182 Exhaust Valve Lapping Success!
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Dec 30, 2019 |
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130 – A Fuel Leak That Didn’t Catch Fire
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Dec 14, 2019 |
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129 – Air Filters: Don’t Let Your Airplane Suffocate!
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Nov 23, 2019 |
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128 – Should I Buy a Twin Cessna or a Beech Baron?
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Nov 15, 2019 |
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127 – No Oil Pressure in a Cessna 150
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Nov 09, 2019 |
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126 – Magneto Trouble at Higher Altitudes
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Nov 04, 2019 |
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125 – Engine Failure – What Would You Do In A Moment’s Notice?
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Oct 14, 2019 |
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124 – Owner Maintenance and Cessna Fuel Strainers
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Oct 04, 2019 |
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123 – Upside Down in an RV7!
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Sep 20, 2019 |
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122 – THAT scared me! (A Wheel Story)
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Sep 08, 2019 |
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121 – When to Fire an A&P
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Aug 24, 2019 |
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120 – Airplanes and People From Oshkosh 2019
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Aug 04, 2019 |
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119 – Sneak Peek of Dean’s Oshkosh Presentation
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Jul 20, 2019 |
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118 – Airplane Maintenance: Too Much or Too Little?
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Jul 04, 2019 |
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117 – Cirrus SR22 Flap Problem Solved
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Jun 09, 2019 |
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116 – Rough Engine: Spark Plugs or Magneto?
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May 26, 2019 |