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Leisure #171

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.

"My airplane is a flying experiment"
May 1, 2025 – 01:06:15
"They put all their maintenance records on napkins"
Apr 15, 2025 – 01:02:17
"Keep torturing those airplanes...and students"
Apr 1, 2025 – 54:31
"Shame on you for even thinking about it"
Mar 15, 2025 – 57:33
"If that doesn't work you've got the flame thrower option"
Mar 1, 2025 – 01:05:24
"Your airplane is on a full-time IV drip"
Feb 15, 2025 – 01:08:56
"You don’t know if he’s going to hit you with a wrench or a lawsuit"
Feb 1, 2025 – 01:09:51
"There's a serious brain drain in aviation maintenance"
Jan 15, 2025 – 01:04:12
"Check it, log it, and then relax"
Jan 1, 2025 – 01:16:32
"There’s a reason they call these amateur built"
Dec 15, 2024 – 59:49
"Don't open up the fuel system if you don't have to"
Dec 1, 2024 – 01:03:39
"The engine didn't explode"
Nov 15, 2024 – 01:02:12
"When they go bad the engine is toast"
Nov 1, 2024 – 01:02:47
"It goes through cylinders like flapjacks"
Oct 15, 2024 – 01:00:25
"When it starts to talk to you it's time to replace it"
Oct 1, 2024 – 58:27
"The people who design these airplanes don't work on them"
Sep 15, 2024 – 01:11:28
"Full rich is horrendously rich"
Sep 1, 2024 – 01:08:47
Live from Saturday Airventure 2024
Aug 15, 2024 – 49:43
"Mechanics are the surgeons of aviation"
Aug 1, 2024 – 01:13:15
"I've had grass stains on my prop"
Jul 15, 2024 – 01:14:06
"Placard it inop"
Jul 1, 2024 – 01:09:03
"Don't pull the throttle back until you want to land"
Jun 15, 2024 – 01:06:05
"Don't do that!"
Jun 1, 2024 – 01:04:56
"I have permission to get an airplane."
May 15, 2024 – 01:04:00
"I'm against throwing a part at something"
May 1, 2024 – 01:04:15
"You become the supervisor of your maintenance"
Apr 15, 2024 – 01:03:54
"Don't split the case halves"
Apr 1, 2024 – 01:00:33
"This guy is on his own, he's a test pilot"
Mar 15, 2024 – 01:04:36
"Let us know how the exorcism goes"
Mar 1, 2024 – 59:21
"The breather is a slobber pot"
Feb 15, 2024 – 55:08
"Think of the prop control as a gear shift"
Feb 1, 2024 – 51:37
"Major and minor is in the eye of the beholder"
Jan 15, 2024 – 01:00:56
"It's not good form to jam the throttle forward"
Jan 1, 2024 – 01:00:24
"We call it an Italian tune-up"
Dec 15, 2023 – 56:25
"Use whatever time runs the slowest"
Dec 1, 2023 – 57:18
"You can't fully pickle it"
Nov 15, 2023 – 01:06:57
"Cleaning injectors causes more problems than it solves"
Nov 1, 2023 – 56:42
"Why don't you just fix the problem?"
Oct 16, 2023 – 01:02:57
"It's not the mechanic's job to make flying cheaper"
Oct 1, 2023 – 56:49
"Inspections are an imperfect process"
Sep 15, 2023 – 47:57
"Don't attack anything with tools"
Sep 1, 2023 – 53:04
Live from Airventure 2023
Aug 15, 2023 – 49:15
"My airplane is so clean you can eat off it"
Aug 1, 2023 – 01:00:58
"The only that thing that can cause CHT to rise that fast is pre-ignition"
Jul 1, 2023 – 01:01:49
"I'm a total turbocharging bigot"
Jun 1, 2023 – 01:14:39
"Pop that cowling off and squirt away"
May 1, 2023 – 01:06:13
"This is a classic infant mortality failure"
Apr 1, 2023 – 01:12:09
"The airplane looks like it's having brain surgery"
Mar 1, 2023 – 57:16
"You may have to go to a different shop"
Feb 1, 2023 – 51:51
"There are critters living in there"
Jan 1, 2023 – 01:00:28