Podcast: Mike Busch On The ECi AD

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Key Takeaways:

  • Aviation expert Mike Busch is actively fighting an FAA airworthiness directive (AD) concerning barrel-head separations on ECi cylinders for big-bore Continental engines.
  • Busch criticizes the FAA's AD as unnecessary, seriously flawed, and a poor example of rulemaking.
  • The article provides two podcast options (short and long versions) featuring Busch, explaining the history and impact of this controversial directive.
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Mike Busch, the Savvy Aviator and one of the U.S.’s best known aircraft technicians, has been fighting the FAA on what he terms an unnecessary and seriously flawed airworthiness directive regarding barrel-head separations on ECi cylinders for big-bore Continental engines. We’ve given you two options to learn more from Busch about this controversial move by the FAA. We edited a short-form podcast of the basics of the history and impact of the AD. We’ve also included an essentially unedited version of the interview where Busch gives the history and context of what he says is a terrible example of rulemaking.

Duration: 8:30 or 28.30

File Size: 7.9 or 25 MB download here

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