Mike Busch is a national treasure for the GA community. He puts out all this knowledge and wisdom on these EAA webinars and EAA posts them up for free. Kudos to you Mr. Busch.
You'd think this would go without saying. Half a century ago (!) I was hired by IBM right out of high school to fix typewriters. Regardless of what the customer told us we weren't allowed to even pick up a tool until we had done a visual examination and functional check of the machine. (Okay, we were allowed to use a springhook to push on things and to remove snap-in access covers, but that was it.)
Part 63 if they haven’t done the work before get an overseeing AP who has. That didn’t happen. I always read the service manual as part of diagnosis. 15 years and I hve seen every one of these webinars. Many several times. . A update one of “Rules of the Maintengame” would be good - since some changes or updates like legal opinion of part 43 A C etc. keep up the awesome work. Love it. Listen to one every night. Sometimes 2.
Isn’t interesting how the AI got the props wrong on most of the airplanes. Prop blades not evenly spaced. Given that Mike is doing all this for free, this is not at all a criticism of his amazing work.
Like the video, thanks as always for your hard work on these, Mike. Just wanted to chime in and say that I miss the old clip art. Many of the AI images are malformed and ugly: "distust" on the Mike Pompeo cartoon and "call me from the cockept," for instance.
In the second scerino of CHT high and engine roughness... seems if a mag had the failure as bad as you show in the photo, wouldn't that cause CHT issues in other cylinders as well? Watching the video, I at first thought of a mag issue then thought no because the CHT was only one cylinder. In my head, I settled on maybe a plugged fuel injector.
Couldn't stop staring at the AI generated images in the slides. Very distracting! I appreciate these videos and have learned a lot but I would prefer no images to these AI generated ones
in modern cars your mechanic plugs in a sensor and the car tells him/her what is faulty. unfortunately the GA fleet will never get to that point due to FAA certification cost. Hopefully Elon and DOGE will slash the FAA to bits. If I ran an advocacy group, I'd be reaching out to him now with ideas. (hint to EAA AOPA etc ). Maybe Mike can go see him!
The PROBLEM described is very real. The source of the problem is the government policy of PILOT officers. The pilot is an ASSUMED authority-his word is “fact.” Maintenance is assumed to be servant to the pilot officer. AND maintenance personnel, typically don’t have a great foundation in BASIC physics - and jump to solve the assumed discrepancy with a verification as the “pilot officer” saunters off to the bar. The pilot only knows how to manipulate the vehicle thinking he “KNOWS!” Starting with military aviation MAINTENANCE staff must be trained to maintenance and flight status - not the high school drop out status.
Mike's point here is that A&P's have to guess at a cause based on the pilot's squawk, which can lead to a bunch of misrepairs. in modern cars your mechanic plugs in a sensor and the car tells him/her what is faulty. unfortunately the GA fleet will never get to that point due to FAA certification cost
People leave out details of how the situation was really handled. I would make a small wager that the owner went in and proclaimed the work didn't need to be done so he wasn't going to pay for any of it (or some similar attitude), which would have got a reaction from the shop of not putting in another minute of labor. Or it could well have been just the inverse with the shop being unreasonable. No way to tell for sure without being a witness. People skills and perceived incentives can go a long way in business.
People will complain no matter what you do. I agree, the AI stuff is TOTALLY FINE. The point of the podcast is NOT wow you with graphics. It’s to LISTEN TO THE SPEAKER. Perhaps closing your eyes will make the podcast more palatable.
30 years ago at a PAMA meeting I was shocked at how they repeatedly called themselves "professionals", insisting on it. All while the chief pilot (who has no skin in the game if a mechanic screws up) was giving them pay cuts, making them work stupidly long hours without overtime (promises of comp time, which never materialized) and generally stomping all over them by having them cut corners. Almost in unison, all the mechanics answered with something akin to a very unprofessional "yes master". They started at 7:30AM and were needlessly still there at 3AM screwing up everything. Professional behavior is not just some combination of: Suit and tie, competence, punctuality, ethics, communication and education. It also includes control over one's work environment, pay scales, and acceptable tasks. If you are just along for the ride, you are not a professional, you are an employee.
Definitely sounds like a conflict of interest that a chief pilot was in charge of the mechanics. Kind of like my last Mechanic job where the director of maintenance is also the quality control manager with a very demanding and profit oriented shop owner. Guess which one gets precedence over the other Sounds like those mechanics needed to grow abackbone
Mike Busch is a national treasure for the GA community. He puts out all this knowledge and wisdom on these EAA webinars and EAA posts them up for free. Kudos to you Mr. Busch.
You'd think this would go without saying. Half a century ago (!) I was hired by IBM right out of high school to fix typewriters. Regardless of what the customer told us we weren't allowed to even pick up a tool until we had done a visual examination and functional check of the machine. (Okay, we were allowed to use a springhook to push on things and to remove snap-in access covers, but that was it.)
Part 63 if they haven’t done the work before get an overseeing AP who has. That didn’t happen. I always read the service manual as part of diagnosis.
15 years and I hve seen every one of these webinars. Many several times. .
A update one of “Rules of the Maintengame” would be good - since some changes or updates like legal opinion of part 43 A C etc.
keep up the awesome work. Love it. Listen to one every night. Sometimes 2.
Isn’t interesting how the AI got the props wrong on most of the airplanes. Prop blades not evenly spaced. Given that Mike is doing all this for free, this is not at all a criticism of his amazing work.
Like the video, thanks as always for your hard work on these, Mike. Just wanted to chime in and say that I miss the old clip art. Many of the AI images are malformed and ugly: "distust" on the Mike Pompeo cartoon and "call me from the cockept," for instance.
Another case of "Maintenance was (unnecessarily) inflected on the airplane".
In the second scerino of CHT high and engine roughness... seems if a mag had the failure as bad as you show in the photo, wouldn't that cause CHT issues in other cylinders as well? Watching the video, I at first thought of a mag issue then thought no because the CHT was only one cylinder. In my head, I settled on maybe a plugged fuel injector.
Couldn't stop staring at the AI generated images in the slides. Very distracting! I appreciate these videos and have learned a lot but I would prefer no images to these AI generated ones
I disagree
Nice but the Russian version in Russian is actually Distrust but verify...Reagan changed it
in modern cars your mechanic plugs in a sensor and the car tells him/her what is faulty. unfortunately the GA fleet will never get to that point due to FAA certification cost. Hopefully Elon and DOGE will slash the FAA to bits. If I ran an advocacy group, I'd be reaching out to him now with ideas. (hint to EAA AOPA etc ). Maybe Mike can go see him!
The PROBLEM described is very real.
The source of the problem is the government policy of PILOT officers.
The pilot is an ASSUMED authority-his word is “fact.”
Maintenance is assumed to be servant to the pilot officer.
AND maintenance personnel, typically don’t have a great foundation in BASIC physics - and jump to solve the assumed discrepancy with a verification as the “pilot officer” saunters off to the bar.
The pilot only knows how to manipulate the vehicle thinking he “KNOWS!”
Starting with military aviation MAINTENANCE staff must be trained to maintenance and flight status - not the high school drop out status.
How rude of you to assume military are high school drop outs. At least, I’m assuming that’s what your last sentence meant.
Mike's point here is that A&P's have to guess at a cause based on the pilot's squawk, which can lead to a bunch of misrepairs. in modern cars your mechanic plugs in a sensor and the car tells him/her what is faulty. unfortunately the GA fleet will never get to that point due to FAA certification cost
Did the cirrus owner pay them anything for their shoddy work.
The owner should be reimbursed for the traveling mechanic to reassemble the engine by that crappy shop.
Had the cirrus pilot done any in-air troubleshooting, like, huh, switching mags, the whole situation would have been avoided.
People leave out details of how the situation was really handled.
I would make a small wager that the owner went in and proclaimed the work didn't need to be done so he wasn't going to pay for any of it (or some similar attitude), which would have got a reaction from the shop of not putting in another minute of labor. Or it could well have been just the inverse with the shop being unreasonable. No way to tell for sure without being a witness.
People skills and perceived incentives can go a long way in business.
That AI art is pretty bad and distracting.
I disagree
People will complain no matter what you do. I agree, the AI stuff is TOTALLY FINE. The point of the podcast is NOT wow you with graphics. It’s to LISTEN TO THE SPEAKER. Perhaps closing your eyes will make the podcast more palatable.
Thanks. I hope his company gets replaced by AI as sketch artists do.
@@Foxbat1155 - interesting… but that will never happen. The shortage of A&P mechanics is extremely distressing.
30 years ago at a PAMA meeting I was shocked at how they repeatedly called themselves "professionals", insisting on it. All while the chief pilot (who has no skin in the game if a mechanic screws up) was giving them pay cuts, making them work stupidly long hours without overtime (promises of comp time, which never materialized) and generally stomping all over them by having them cut corners. Almost in unison, all the mechanics answered with something akin to a very unprofessional "yes master". They started at 7:30AM and were needlessly still there at 3AM screwing up everything.
Professional behavior is not just some combination of: Suit and tie, competence, punctuality, ethics, communication and education. It also includes control over one's work environment, pay scales, and acceptable tasks. If you are just along for the ride, you are not a professional, you are an employee.
Definitely sounds like a conflict of interest that a chief pilot was in charge of the mechanics. Kind of like my last Mechanic job where the director of maintenance is also the quality control manager with a very demanding and profit oriented shop owner. Guess which one gets precedence over the other
Sounds like those mechanics needed to grow abackbone
I rather enjoyed the AI artwork. Just a data point.
I did too