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Savvy Aviator News
June 2016
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Mike Busch @ AirVenture 2016
Savvy's Founder and CEO Mike Busch will be busy with presentations at EAA's AirVenture Oshkosh 2016. He is scheduled for 12 presentations in the Forums on topics including Oil Consumption, Engines Making Metal, Flying After Maintenance, TBO and Beyond, and Leaning 101. Here's the complete schedule. Cleared to land on the green dot - Welcome to Oshkosh.
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SavvyAnalysis Report Card Update
We continue to roll out the beta version of the Savvy Report Card to more aircraft and engine models. Recently we added the IO-520-powered BE33 Bonanza/Debonair, the Mooney M20S Eagle and the Cessna 350 Columbia and 400 Corvalis/TTx. For the complete list of aircraft and engine models currently receiving Report Cards, see the Report Card FAQ .
If you are a SavvyMx, SavvyQA or SavvyAnalysis Pro client with an aircraft in one of these groups, you can ensure that you receive a Report Card by uploading all of your flights to the SavvyAnalysis platform. The more flights you upload, the more meaningful the Report Card results will be.
Haven’t seen the Report Card yet? Here is a Sample Report Card.
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Is Repair a Lost Art?
If there were a part on your airplane that was deemed beyond repair, do the FARs allow you as an owner to fabricate a new part? Does it matter if that part is available from the manufacturer? Or from a salvage yard? Is your repair shop allowed to fabricate a new part? In his monthly column for AOPA Pilot magazine, Mike Busch parses the language of FAR 1.1 and Part 43 Appendix A and gives good news to an owner of a 172M.
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First, Do No Harm
Those famous words from the Hippocratic Oath should be printed on every toolbox. The goal of maintenance is to make things better, but sometimes we see post-maintenance evidence that things have gotten worse. In this month's Puzzler, Savvy Analyst Joe Godfrey looks at engine data that points to MIFs. Read the full article.
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Resistance to Assistance
Part 43 lists several preventive maintenance items that an owner can perform and sign off. But it's getting harder and harder to find a mechanic or a shop that will let an owner participate in annuals. What's the reluctance? Is it efficiency? Is it insurance? In his latest AOPA Opinion Leaders Blog Mike Busch examines the resistance to owner assistance.
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Webinar archive: Suck, Squeeze, Bang, Blow
It's either a one-man-band or a 4-cycle engine. Intake, compression, combustion and exhaust are more accurate, but S,S,B,B is more fun to say. In this recording of his June 1st webinar, join maintenance expert Mike Busch as he goes into detail on each of the four cycles that we rely on to generate power.
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Newsletter Archive
Want to catch up on past editions of this newsletter? All the previous issues have now been assembled into a single location, viewable online - click here to access
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