Ask the A&Ps

Sports & Recreation Podcasts

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.

Episodes

"TBO is not a reason to do anything to an engine"

"If you lose a cylinder in your Cessna 150 you are down on a road somewhere"

"Am I doing anything evil?"

"That installation is fraught with peril"

"I'm an old mechanic and really like the idea of priming and painting"

"That's an oft-reported myth"

“Is this like pulling a mattress tag off?”

"The owner can't do maintenance because the owner doesn't have arms"

"You're going to give him nightmares"

"He has a piston with a smiley face on it that's not very happy"

"Just be sure you lube it with something"

"If you go to 76 percent, the wings will fall off"

"It's one of the few accidents where you get to choose where it happens"

"Being an aircraft owner is the hardest job in aviation"

"That's an urban legend"

"More time to fly, less time to turn wrenches"

"You have a lot of splaining to do"

"Mechanics can be ornery sometimes"

Live from Airventure 2025

"That'd be like putting grease on the road"