Ask the A&Ps
Hosted by Mike and Paul and Colleen and Mike Busch and Paul New · AOPA
4.9from 420 ratings
- 113
- Episodes
- 50
- Transcribed
- 420
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
- 36M
- YouTube views
About Ask the A&Ps
Experts Mike Busch, Paul New, and Colleen Sterling answer your toughest aviation maintenance questions. Submit questions to podcasts@aopa.org. New episodes are released the first and fifteenth of every month.
- Publisher
- AOPA
- Category
- education · leisure
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 10 Aug 2020
- Latest episode
- 16 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
50 of 113 episodes have a transcript.
16 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
"Be careful what you ask for"
1 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Live from AirVenture 2026, Session 2
15 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
Live from AirVenture 2026
Inside a recent episode
"Be careful what you ask for"
Published 16 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] I did mean the head. Okay. The other thing I want to point out is when you're looking for advice as to whether or not to pull a cylinder, never solicit it from somebody who overhauls cylinders. That's like asking a surgeon whether you need surgery. Yeah, that's funny. But we trust this guy. We've worked with this guy a lot. And he sees a lot of cylinders. So I did feel comfortable taking his advice. It was the right call. I'm obviously joking. Yeah. But that leaves the question of how does something like this happen? Because an intake valve very seldom happens. have problems and they normally run cool and they're, you know, they're closed during combustion and, and, and they have nice cool fuel errors going past them when they're open and they're not heat sink. […]
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Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 36,137,187
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 285 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 135 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 61 / 100
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- Quality
- 49
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 91
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Who hosts Ask the A&Ps?
Mike and Paul and Colleen and Mike Busch and Paul New host the show. Published by AOPA.
How often do new episodes come out?
The show publishes daily, based on its RSS feed.
Does Ask the A&Ps take guests?
The show does not typically feature guests, based on episode analyses.
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