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Airplane Owner Maintenance - By Dean Showalter — 125 episodes

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259 – Bonanza Clunking Wheel Noise Solved!

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258 – C’mon Does Valve Lapping Really Work?!

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257 – Rough Engine: Go Back Home!

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256 – Not Quite Full Flaps

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255 – Cirrus SR22 Flaps Sometimes Won’t Retract

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254 – Solving an Air Conditioning Mystery and Learning New Things!

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253 – Missed Windows of Opportunity

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252 – Why Does the Bonanza Gear Relay Breaker Pop?

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251 – Bennett’s Exhaust Valve Rescue on his Cessna TTx

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250 – Frustrations with Piper Rudder Cable Tension

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249 – An EXHAUST-ing Mooney / Continental Story

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248 – Mark’s Cessna T210 Exhaust Valve Story

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247 – Brake Failure After Landing

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246 – Parts Changer or Real Mechanic? Cessna-210 Landing Gear Motor Story

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245 – A Crazy and Amazing Week!

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244 – Down a CHT Rabbit Hole!

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243 – A Stranded Piper Saratoga

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242 – Your Airplane’s Alternator: Neglected or Well-Cared-For?

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241 – Best Airplane Engine Overhaul Shops

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240 – MEI Check Ride Struggles

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239 – When Your “Perfect” Airplane Gets a Prebuy

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238 – Check Ride Thoughts & Piper Door Stop Repair

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237 – Checkride Butterflies!

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236 – Spare Parts and Tools to Carry in Your Airplane

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235 – Ugly Propellers and What to Do About Them

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234 – Why the Airplane’s Heater Didn’t Light Last Winter

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233 – Mike’s Owner Assisted Annual on His F33A Bonanza

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232 – A Piper, A Pineapple, and a Motorcycle

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231 – Piper Comanche Weird Electrical Problem and Seeping Oil Drain Valve

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230 “Phantom Cracks” in Airplane Engine Cylinders

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229 – Cessna 206 Alternator Not Working

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228 – Saving a Cylinder on Dan & Jeanne’s Bonanza

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227 – Electrical Chaos When the Landing Light was Turned On

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226 – Piper Lance Lands at SHD After In-Flight Electrical Failure

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225 – Obscure ATC Intersection Mystery Solved (It’s UDIYU!)

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224 – Jim’s Exhaust Valve Rescue on his Cessna 182 Engine

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223 – Piper Cherokee Annual and Other Maintenance Adventures

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222 – How an Engine Cylinder Went From 25/80 to 75/80!

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221 – Maui Adventures in the Air and on the Ground!

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220 – An Epic Working Vacation to Maui!

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219 – I Installed New Brake Linings and the Wheel Would Not Turn!

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218 – Engine Oil was Seeping Out of the Top Cowling

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217 – Does Your Magneto Have Any Broken Teeth?

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216 – WHY is the alternator not working?!

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215 – Vacuum Pump Adventure with Clark, my Airline Captain Friend

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214 – An Unacceptably Low Cylinder Compression

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213 – Stellar Advice for YOUR Aviation Career

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212 – Is Your Airplane’s Battery Too Old?

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211 – A Cold Flight in an Aerostar!

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210 – Cessna 172 Engine Install / Good ATC Talk

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209 – Responses from Airline Pilots, and Finishing a Bonanza Annual

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208 – Back in the Maintenance Shop and Off to JFK!

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207 – A Fantastic Conversation With My Son Seth!

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206 – Thanksgiving, Deer Hunting, and Discount Codes

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205 – My First Landing at Hannah Field in a Cessna 150

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204 – FlyRight King Air 350 Simulator Training was Awesome!

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203 – Dean’s Midlife Aviation Transition!

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202 – Pax River Navy Test Pilot: Trace Bowen

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201 – SureFly Ignition Installation

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200 – My Recent Flight Review and Other Adventures

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199 – A Bulging Exhaust – Change it, or not?

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198 – Be Careful About In-flight Troubleshooting!

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197 – When He Put the Gear Up the Right Alternator Quit

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196 – Joe’s #5 Cylinder Mystery

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195 – Is it Time to Tear That Engine Apart?

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194 – All About Airplane Prebuys with Adam Sipe

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193 – How Did this Starter housing Break?

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192 – We Always Knew He Had A Screw Loose!

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191 – A Tale of Two Exhaust Valves

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190 – The Cessna 172 is Flying Again!

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189 – Cessna 172 Squawks Part Two

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188 – Cessna 172 Squawks and Repairs

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187 – Wonders and Woes of a Cirrus SR22

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186 – Diamond DA40 Squawks & a new Bonanza Friend!

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185 – Standby Alternator System and Other Fun Stuff

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184 – My Oshkosh 2021 Adventure!

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183 – I’m Bringing an Engine Cylinder to Oshkosh!

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182 – Plane Lands in Farm Field After Engine Failure

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181 – Strut Webinar Replay and Video Course Are Ready!

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180 – Almost Time for Oshkosh 2021!

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179 – Help! I Took A Turbo Apart

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178 – Propeller Mystery Solved!

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177 – An Out-of-Control Propeller!

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176 – Lessons From the Best Kind of Airplane Owner

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175 – Shock Strut Servicing Course Coming Soon!

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174 – Turbo-Normalized Bonanza Exhaust Valve Rescue!

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173 – What’s Happening With Cylinder #1 in my Mooney M20J?

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172 – A Perplexing Low Cylinder Compression on a Piper Saratoga

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171 – Bad Gas in the Cockpit!

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170 – Eddie’s Jabiru Cylinder Compression: From 0/80 to 70/80!

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169 – Transformed Interiors with Autumn Elizabeth Design

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168 – Things I Found on an A36 Bonanza

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167 – Shop Towels in Wrong Places

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166 – A Strong and Humble Blue Angels Pilot: Jim Cox

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165 – A Shop Towel in the Engine! Don’t Do What I Did!

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164 – Airplanes, Motorcycles, and Bob’s Grass Runway

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163 – Gear Warning Light Mystery

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162 – Giving Thanks for my Good Friend Jonathan Brush

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161 – Tobin’s Cherokee Six

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160 – Jessica Spangler Becoming an A&P in Cameroon

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159 – In the Approach Path of a Boeing 737!

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158 – Starters, Starter Adapters, and Starter Solenoids

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157 – Valve lapping, shock mounts, and vacuum issues

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156 – The Weirdest Vacuum System Problem I’ve Ever Seen

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155 – My Retractable Landing Gear is Not Moving!

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154 – If I Looked at YOUR Airplane, What Would I Discover?

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153 – A Flying and Maintenance Adventure at Ravenswood WV

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152 – My Bonanza Door Popped Open, and My Wife Won’t Fly With Me!

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151 – Things I Found On Tom’s Piper Cherokee

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150 – John and Leslie Caubble’s Aviation Journey!

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149 – Cessna 172 Q & A with John and Leslie Caubble

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148 – $200 Annual Inspection with Jim Weir

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147 – Aram Basmadjian and His V-Tail Bonanza

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146 – Fixing an Obscure Oil Leak

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145 – Seatbelt Airbags and Transient Voltage Suppressors

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144 – Joe Godfrey, Engine Data, and Savvy Analysis

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143 – Oh No! A Lycoming Exhaust Stud Pulled Out!

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142 – Fixing a Stranded Cessna 172XP and Flying it Home

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141 – Aviate, Navigate, Communicate, is Exactly Backwards!

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140 – I Traveled to Wyoming and Canada this Week and Learned About Four Different Airplanes!

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139 – My Alternator Came Apart… Should I Also Replace the Voltage Regulator?

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138 – Mike White and his 1948 Piper Stinson

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137 – IA Seminar Borescoping and Exhaust Valve Stories

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136 – Engine Oil Leak: How Much is Too Much?

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135 – Carl Valeri: Airline Pilot, Piper Pilot, and Aviation Careers Coach