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Ask the A&Ps

AOPA

Experts Mike Busch, Paul New, and Colleen Sterling answer your toughest aviation maintenance questions. Submit questions to [email protected]. New episodes are released the first and fifteenth of every month.

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116 episodes

  1. "Shock cooling is a myth" 51:35
  2. "You need to tackle your mechanic" 1:01:54
  3. "They will find you" 57:42
  4. "Be careful what you ask for" 1:03:29
  5. Live from AirVenture 2026, Session 2 37:19
  6. Live from AirVenture 2026 31:32
  7. "We're in the twenty-first century here folks" 45:26
  8. "Your mechanic feels worse than you do" 48:42
  9. "It's in your head" 52:48
  10. "I always try to buy high and sell low" 49:12
  11. "Too much data is a bad thing" 50:30
  12. "TBO is not a reason to do anything to an engine" 57:43
  13. "If you lose a cylinder in your Cessna 150 you are down on a road somewhere" 50:33
  14. "Am I doing anything evil?" 57:29
  15. "That installation is fraught with peril" 53:38
  16. "I'm an old mechanic and really like the idea of priming and painting" 49:16
  17. "That's an oft-reported myth" 49:42
  18. “Is this like pulling a mattress tag off?” 54:52
  19. "The owner can't do maintenance because the owner doesn't have arms" 50:18
  20. "You're going to give him nightmares" 56:12
  21. "He has a piston with a smiley face on it that's not very happy" 42:59
  22. "Just be sure you lube it with something" 44:13
  23. "If you go to 76 percent, the wings will fall off" 51:18
  24. "It's one of the few accidents where you get to choose where it happens" 52:23
  25. "Being an aircraft owner is the hardest job in aviation" 51:01
  26. "That's an urban legend" 49:45
  27. "More time to fly, less time to turn wrenches" 49:15
  28. "You have a lot of splaining to do" 53:22
  29. "Mechanics can be ornery sometimes" 56:55
  30. Live from Airventure 2025 45:08
  31. "That'd be like putting grease on the road" 1:02:16
  32. "That's one way to flat spot a tire" 41:59
  33. "An airplane with no engine is worth nothing" 1:01:06
  34. "You have to cart mogas around like a homeless person" 1:03:11
  35. "You have license to go zorching around" 1:00:55
  36. "Continentals burn valves and Lycomings stick valves" 1:11:57
  37. "My airplane is a flying experiment" 1:06:15
  38. "They put all their maintenance records on napkins" 1:02:17
  39. "Keep torturing those airplanes...and students" 54:31
  40. "Shame on you for even thinking about it" 57:33
  41. "If that doesn't work you've got the flame thrower option" 1:05:24
  42. "Your airplane is on a full-time IV drip" 1:08:56
  43. "You don’t know if he’s going to hit you with a wrench or a lawsuit" 1:09:51
  44. "There's a serious brain drain in aviation maintenance" 1:04:12
  45. "Check it, log it, and then relax" 1:16:32
  46. "There’s a reason they call these amateur built" 59:49
  47. "Don't open up the fuel system if you don't have to" 1:03:39
  48. "The engine didn't explode" 1:02:12
  49. "When they go bad the engine is toast" 1:02:47
  50. "It goes through cylinders like flapjacks" 1:00:25