Mike Busch on Engines

What every aircraft owner needs to know about the design, operation, condition monitoring, maintenance and troubleshooting of piston piston aircraft engines

De: Mike Busch

Narrado por: Justin Smallbridge, Michael Busch

“The risk of engine failure is greatest when your engine is young, NOT when it’s old. You should worry more about pediatrics than geriatrics.” (Mike Busch, A&P/IA)

Mike Busch on Engines expands the iconoclastic philosophy of his groundbreaking first book Manifesto to the design, operation, condition monitoring, maintenance, and troubleshooting of piston aircraft engines.

Busch begins with the history and theory of four-stroke spark-ignition engines. He describes the construction of both the “top end” (cylinders) and “bottom end” (inside the case), and functioning of key systems (lubrication, ignition, carburetion, fuel injection, turbocharging). He reviews modern engine leaning technique (which your POH probably has all wrong), and provides a detailed blueprint for maximizing the life of your engine.

The second half presents a 21st-century approach to health assessment, maintenance, overhaul and troubleshooting. Busch explains how modern condition monitoring tools—like borescopy, oil analysis, and digital engine monitor data analysis—allow you to extend engine life and overhaul strictly on-condition rather at an arbitrary TBO. The section devoted to troubleshooting problems like rough running, high oil consumption, temperamental ignition, and turbocharging issues is worth its weight in gold.

If you want your engine to live long and prosper, you need this book.

©2018 Michael D. Busch (P)2023 Savvy Aviator, Inc.

Need for maintaining engine

Made me aware of things to keep track of regarding engine health, also companies to go to for assistance

Fabulous

Mike knocks IR out of the park as per usual. So great to see the tip of the hat to George Braly in the Epilogue. Honestly, I doubt I’d have finished the book without the Audible format. Congratulations!

All aircraft owners should read.

After 50 years of building general aviation engines I can say this is filled with some of the best advice I've seen for pilots. I don't agree with everything but it's a good work. Well researched.

Thank you Mike Bush!

Thank you Mike for sharing all your wisdom, you really are dragging GA piston maintenance and operational procedures into this century kicking and screaming.

Out with the old, In with the new!!

I recently read a story about the history of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream & was surprised how they were ‘unencumbered by the myth of experience’ & instead went with what worked. Many years earlier, the Wright Brothers similarly threw out knowledge that wasn’t working. Mike Busch has a similar approach that not only makes sense, but is backed up with hard evidence. Even if You’re not a ‘gear head’, this book makes a LOT of sense!!

Excellent in depth study

Found this to be a fascinating study of the history and experiences of engine management and plane ownership.
If you want to understand leaning, how to have a pov on engine management this is for you.

Very Very Informative

Filled with very detailed information about maintaining and monitoring your engine. Lots of practical advice for a novice like me, and plenty of detail that would benefit a mechanic. Excellent for an aircraft owner, and required reading if you work on them.

Fascinating and informative

Must read for all involved in GA maintenance, management, and ownership. Prospective pilots and CFIs should also read to develop comprehensive level of understanding and break years of dogmatic inaccuracies.

Information

I have a 182S with Mostly electronic gremlins the first year. I bought it with 1700 hours, got a minimal subscription to Savvy aviation & I’ll keep an eye on my settings in flight. Lots of knowledge for a woman plane owner!

Absolutely critical information contained in this book for piston aviation.

This book contains a much needed new take on a dangerously antiquated industry space. It the complex topic of engine maintenance and makes clear what is most important and what is least. A absolutely recommended read for anyone into engines even if not for aviation.