Maintenance

If you cant find hangar space, is going straight up an option? The economics pencil out favorably.

If youre serious about ice protection, the TKS weeping wing design strikes us as the best choice. Heres an owner report on a Cessna 206 retrofit.

Wet vacuum pumps were once standard until cheaper-not necessarily better-dry pumps displaced them. Airwolf aims to make the wet design the Alpha dog of vacuum.

A new online design paint design service offers plenty of choices at affordable prices. Owners can customize or pick from existing schemes.

ECI is recalling and replacing a total of 2000 cylinders for Continental engines. A new AD will make it mandatory.

Overhaul shops like the Bendix but those who repair mags in the field tilt toward Slicks, which are also cheaper.

Many engines are equipped with old style rock-catcher oil screens. Paper filter conversions are worth the expense.

Heat treating problems in Titan cylinders has led to cracking. ECI says the problem has been contained.

There are more of them than ever and more ways to track them down. Adlog is the value leader; ATP the most complete.

Our shiny gray hangar floor, that is. But getting there isn’t easy. Descend with us into the dark vortex of epoxy hell.

AGM technology is the way to go, in our view. For equivalent applications, Concordes outperform Gills.

AGM technology is the best choice these days. Heres a primer on making the right choice.