4.8 • 730 Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2020
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
147 Max talks with Mike Busch, author of four books on general aviation piston aircraft maintenance, about essential aircraft ownership tips. Mike talks about how to protect aircraft engines from corrosion if the plane isn’t flown and about post-maintenance test flights and how they should be flown. He also relates horror stories of pilots who tried to save money by buying a cheap airplane.
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Manifesto: A Revolutionary Approach to General Aviation Maintenance
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Mike Busch on Airplane Ownership (Volume 1)
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0:00.0 | and somehow or other pilots have this, or a lot of pilots have this notion that the airplane |
0:09.4 | is safest right after it comes out of an annual inspection because it's been looked over |
0:13.8 | really carefully and everything has to be right. |
0:16.0 | And that's exactly the opposite of the truth. |
0:19.5 | That is the most dangerous time. |
0:26.2 | Hello again, and welcome to the Aviation News Talk podcast. I'm Max Truscott, and this is our weekly show dedicated to everything general aviation, such as news, safety tips for pilots and student pilots like you. |
0:42.2 | Today, we'll be talking with author Mike Bush. He's the 2008 National Aviation Maintenance Technician of the Year and founder of Savvy Aviation. Mike has written two new books on |
0:46.8 | airplane ownership and he'll be giving his tips for aircraft ownership. Now last week in |
0:51.4 | episode 146, we talked about was minimums, which you need to understand |
0:56.0 | to fly GPS approaches. So if you didn't hear that episode, you may want to check it out. |
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1:40.1 | Now here's our conversation with Mike Bush. |
1:43.4 | Now let me tell you a little bit about Mike Bush. |
1:45.9 | Mike was born in New York City and grew up in the Northeast. |
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