Ask the A&Ps
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Episodes: 71
Description
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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"There’s a reason they call these amateur built"
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Dec 15, 2024 |
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"Don't open up the fuel system if you don't have to"
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Dec 01, 2024 |
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"The engine didn't explode"
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Nov 15, 2024 |
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"When they go bad the engine is toast"
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Nov 01, 2024 |
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"It goes through cylinders like flapjacks"
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Oct 15, 2024 |
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"When it starts to talk to you it's time to replace it"
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Oct 01, 2024 |
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"The people who design these airplanes don't work on them"
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Sep 15, 2024 |
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"Full rich is horrendously rich"
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Sep 01, 2024 |
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Live from Saturday Airventure 2024
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Aug 15, 2024 |
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"Mechanics are the surgeons of aviation"
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Aug 01, 2024 |
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"I've had grass stains on my prop"
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Jul 15, 2024 |
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"Placard it inop"
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Jul 01, 2024 |
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"Don't pull the throttle back until you want to land"
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Jun 15, 2024 |
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"Don't do that!"
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Jun 01, 2024 |
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"I have permission to get an airplane."
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May 15, 2024 |
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"I'm against throwing a part at something"
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May 01, 2024 |
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"You become the supervisor of your maintenance"
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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"Don't split the case halves"
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Apr 01, 2024 |
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"This guy is on his own, he's a test pilot"
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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"Let us know how the exorcism goes"
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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"The breather is a slobber pot"
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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"Think of the prop control as a gear shift"
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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"Major and minor is in the eye of the beholder"
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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"It's not good form to jam the throttle forward"
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Jan 01, 2024 |
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"We call it an Italian tune-up"
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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"Use whatever time runs the slowest"
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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"You can't fully pickle it"
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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"Cleaning injectors causes more problems than it solves"
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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"Why don't you just fix the problem?"
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Oct 16, 2023 |
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"It's not the mechanic's job to make flying cheaper"
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Oct 01, 2023 |
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"Inspections are an imperfect process"
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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"Don't attack anything with tools"
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Sep 01, 2023 |
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Live from Airventure 2023
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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"My airplane is so clean you can eat off it"
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Aug 01, 2023 |
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"The only that thing that can cause CHT to rise that fast is pre-ignition"
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Jul 01, 2023 |
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"I'm a total turbocharging bigot"
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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"Pop that cowling off and squirt away"
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May 01, 2023 |
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"This is a classic infant mortality failure"
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Apr 01, 2023 |
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"The airplane looks like it's having brain surgery"
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Mar 01, 2023 |
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"You may have to go to a different shop"
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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"There are critters living in there"
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Jan 01, 2023 |
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"You have two options and a top overhaul isn't one of them"
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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"All engines deserve an engine monitor in their Christmas stocking"
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Nov 01, 2022 |
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"We're card-carrying members of overthinkers anonymous"
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Oct 01, 2022 |
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"I'm a choir boy in the church of lean of peak"
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Sep 01, 2022 |
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"I don't have a baby monitor on the engine"
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Aug 01, 2022 |
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Live from Airventure 2022
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Jul 28, 2022 |
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"I'm a reformed shock cooling worrier"
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Jul 01, 2022 |
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"EGTs are imaginary numbers"
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Jun 01, 2022 |
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"Use the TLAR system. That looks about right"
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May 01, 2022 |
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"Your airplane may look like the molting hide of an animal"
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Apr 01, 2022 |
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"We don't check the accuracy of your fuel gauges"
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Mar 01, 2022 |
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"You'll ruin a set of clothes for sure"
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Feb 01, 2022 |
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"It's not our job to be the safety police"
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Jan 01, 2022 |
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"That little cap doesn't hold the wings on"
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Dec 01, 2021 |
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"Only a CFI would ask a question like that"
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Nov 01, 2021 |
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"Compression readings are garbage"
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Oct 01, 2021 |
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"Why can't we do something simple like clone an engine?"
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Sep 01, 2021 |
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"There's no free lunch in aviation"
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Aug 01, 2021 |
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"An oil filter inspection is non-invasive, unless you're an oil filter"
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Jul 01, 2021 |
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"About the half the time, reported cracked cylinders aren't cracked"
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Jun 01, 2021 |
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"Heavy detonation is normally a self-correcting event"
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May 01, 2021 |
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"I don't see anything that makes me want to attack the engine with tools"
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Apr 01, 2021 |
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'If it moves, squirt it with something'
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Mar 01, 2021 |
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'We just saved your engine'
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Feb 01, 2021 |
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"Did you float the dog?"
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Jan 01, 2021 |
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'I went to the church of lean of peak'
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Dec 01, 2020 |
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'You're not going to fall out of the sky because the camshaft wears'
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Nov 01, 2020 |
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"You're never in a situation where the IA can hold you hostage"
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Oct 01, 2020 |
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I'm upside down and there's no oil in my engine!
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Sep 01, 2020 |
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Introducing Ask the A&Ps
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Aug 10, 2020 |