RoundTwo Posted February 10, 2023 Report Posted February 10, 2023 Yea or Nay? Any others you prefer or recommend? 1
carusoam Posted February 10, 2023 Report Posted February 10, 2023 Yay! Check the author on each of those books… Know who wrote them and why… If Mike Busch wrote it… it is a good resource. The question is… how much can you get out of them…? Let’s invite @kortopates to stop by… see if Paul has additional insight to share… The more you know… the better off you will be. Best regards, -a- 1
RoundTwo Posted February 10, 2023 Author Report Posted February 10, 2023 15 minutes ago, carusoam said: Yay! Check the author on each of those books… Know who wrote them and why… If Mike Busch wrote it… it is a good resource. The question is… how much can you get out of them…? Let’s invite @kortopates to stop by… see if Paul has additional insight to share… The more you know… the better off you will be. Best regards, -a- The FB post said they need to occupy space on every pilot’s bookshelf, so if FB says so, it must be so. 1 2
RideOrFly Posted February 10, 2023 Report Posted February 10, 2023 Big fan of manifesto...haven't read the others yet.
Pinecone Posted February 10, 2023 Report Posted February 10, 2023 That is the only one I have not read. I have it though. There are some detractors to Mike. I feel he has done a great job of collating info from a number of sources and presents in a clear manner. A lot of good info I did find a lot of overlap between the books. So if you read all three fairly close together you will be thinking, didn't I already hear this? 2
Fly Boomer Posted February 10, 2023 Report Posted February 10, 2023 5 hours ago, RoundTwo said: Yea or Nay? Any others you prefer or recommend? I have a couple of Mike's books in print, and a couple on Kindle. I prefer the written word to his real-time presentations. BTW, you don't need a actual Kindle -- just run the Kindle app on your iPad.
EricJ Posted February 10, 2023 Report Posted February 10, 2023 They're very useful, but certainly not the last word on anything, imho. 1
rickseeman Posted February 10, 2023 Report Posted February 10, 2023 Anything Mike Busch wrote is worth buying, reading, hoarding.
kortopates Posted February 10, 2023 Report Posted February 10, 2023 A great wealth of information, much of which you won't find anywhere else. Truly a great proponent of on condition maintenance. 1
Schllc Posted February 11, 2023 Report Posted February 11, 2023 I’ve read “manifesto” and “engines”. regardless of the regard you have for Mike Busch, both are filled with immutable principles, and excellent basis for understanding airplane engines.
0TreeLemur Posted February 11, 2023 Report Posted February 11, 2023 The book "Engines" saved me over 100 times what I paid for it. I just read it before an annual on our C model a few years ago. The shop that is located one state over called me saying that they couldn't get one of the cylinders to make compression. They wanted to remove the jug. Armed with some knowledge from that book, I asked "Did you warm up the engine and try again?" "No." they replied. "Please warm it up and try again." I said. "But we already drained the oil." The mechanic replied. "I'll pay for some oil, please do that and let me know what happens." They warmed it up and no problem with compression test. Had I not read that book, I wouldn't have known about potential ring alignment causing a bad compression test, and the remedy of running the engine. They should have known better. Maybe since I was a new owner and they knew it, they smelled an opportunity? 3
MikeOH Posted February 11, 2023 Report Posted February 11, 2023 Very happy I own them all. Benefit/Cost ratio is nearly infinite
hammdo Posted February 11, 2023 Report Posted February 11, 2023 Absolutely worth having, I have all of them on Kindle. I use it as a guide. Lots of great info. For instance a ‘ring flush’ can help get you more time before the deed need to get done but, you still need to know ‘what’ caused the issue in the first place. Just be realistic… Outside of that, on condition is what I do since I have a great reference to work with… Don 1
moosebreath Posted February 19, 2023 Report Posted February 19, 2023 All four books are available on Kindle Unlimited for free. You can read them on your iPad and decide if you need a hard copy. Kindle Unlimited is about $10 a month.
Recommended Posts