Wise words. I guess this piece of advice is applicable to every piece of machinery out there. Except crash car racing cars, maybe. But even in that case, you try to break the other person’s car, not your own…
Wise words. I guess this piece of advice is applicable to every piece of machinery out there. Except crash car racing cars, maybe. But even in that case, you try to break the other person’s car, not your own…
I found that regular maintenance was what kept my motorcycle engine going. Keeping that plane’s engine going is pretty much *your* department, Julio.
Actually, most A&P mechanics recommend you run that engine HARD for the first dozen hours, to seat the rings; that’ll keep oil usage really low.
Just so you know, this conversation happened in real life exactly like this….verbatim.
I was a young buck pilot who was supposed to test fly a new motor in a Cessna and one of the really old airport bums who have been around aviation for 50 years was helping me out and said exactly this towards the end of his spiel.
I asked “Is there any trick to make an engine last longer?” and John (who is no longer with us) said “yes, don’t break it!”