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[Stetson20]

... of my aviation time and experience is with turbine engines. Any good books on the wonderful world of reciprocating gas engines?  My flying career has been military, then commercial. Relatively little experience with GA light aircraft. I remember once, getting checked out in a Cherokee (I think?) with a local CFI. He said something about carb heat and I got the deer in the headlights look. Kinda funny, but it’s a knowledge base that I’m lacking.

I bought a M20E a couple years back, and has to sell it and move before I could gain any real experience in it. I’m shopping again, and now have a better understanding of what I DON’T know. I’ve ordered all four of the Mike Busch books. Any other suggestions?

Thanks!

Roy

[carusoam]

Mike Busch is a great resource...

When it comes to Mooney operations... there was a presentation and lab that made leaning and LOP simple... look for APS.

Read up on all things Savvy... you will recognize the Mike Busch centered, hands on engine monitor data handling...

Let’s invite @kortopates to the thread...

Great question!

Ready to get back in the air?

Best regards,

-a-

[Stetson20]

22 minutes ago, carusoam said:

Mike Busch is a great resource...

When it comes to Mooney operations... there was a presentation and lab that made leaning and LOP simple... look for APS.

Read up on all things Savvy... you will recognize the Mike Busch centered, hands on engine monitor data handling...

Let’s invite @kortopates to the thread...

Great question!

Ready to get back in the air?

Best regards,

-a-

Yes! 

[0TreeLemur]

This book saved me a pile of money last annual.  Reading it armed me with the information needed to push a shop to do the right thing, not the expensive thing.  You'll learn a lot.   I look forward to the book that synthesizes all the stuff that Savvy is learning by harvesting our engine monitor data coupled with actual knowledge of problems and their solutions from their service.

 

[jlunseth]

There is a great one. Flying High Performance Singles and Twins by John Eckalbar. 

If you want to learn engine management, then see if you can sign up for the Advanced Pilot Seminars usually put on in Ada, OK by the GAMI people, that or the online course. One of the GAMI people wrote a series of articles on all kinds of engine issues called Pelican's Perch, it is worth looking them up. Google should do it.

For weather, you need to attend a Scott Dennestaedt seminar if he is still putting them on (age of COVID). There have been many changes in  what is available to pilots in the way of weather reporting in the last decade. Learn the Skew-T-Log-P if you don't know it already.

[Stetson20]

3 hours ago, 0TreeLemur said:

This book saved me a pile of money last annual.  Reading it armed me with the information needed to push a shop to do the right thing, not the expensive thing.  You'll learn a lot.   I look forward to the book that synthesizes all the stuff that Savvy is learning by harvesting our engine monitor data coupled with actual knowledge of problems and their solutions from their service.

 

I have all four books ordered.

[Stetson20]

1 hour ago, jlunseth said:

There is a great one. Flying High Performance Singles and Twins by John Eckalbar. 

If you want to learn engine management, then see if you can sign up for the Advanced Pilot Seminars usually put on in Ada, OK by the GAMI people, that or the online course. One of the GAMI people wrote a series of articles on all kinds of engine issues called Pelican's Perch, it is worth looking them up. Google should do it.

For weather, you need to attend a Scott Dennestaedt seminar if he is still putting them on (age of COVID). There have been many changes in  what is available to pilots in the way of weather reporting in the last decade. Learn the Skew-T-Log-P if you don't know it already.

On my reading list. Thank you!