"Saturday was, frankly, all really hard work. On Sunday, we tried to integrate all of that new found knowledge back into the every day operation of our engines." George and the class.   Send a comment Your Name Your Email Telephone Comments If you have any questions at all regarding any aspect of this program feel free to email any of the following: Walter Atkinson John Deakin   Q&A Clean-up We get started early with a Continental breakfast in the classroom and take a few minutes to answer questions to clear any fog which may be lingering. Now What? "Using What you've learned." Walter will present a selection of of important real-world scenarios whereby you will be applying the new information you have learned and which we have been discussing. These are real, in-flight issues which have been brought to us by pilots for the answer to "Uhh, what just happened?" Some events you will have seen before in your own airplane and possibly not recognized them; others you will hope you will never see. There's nothing quite like having previously seen a problem in helping you deal with it when it happens to you. Break Real time quiz George will challenge your new skills with a display of data from an engine monitor taken from a real "event." If you correctly figure out what to do (if anything) or not do, and when, in response to this challenge, you will know that you have joined the ranks of the all to few pilots who truly understand their engine monitor and how they can properly control the events going on inside their engines. The room always gets really quiet when this presentation starts! Detonation & Pre-ignition "Recognizing & Avoiding the Catastrophic event" Next, George will present the details and scientific explanations of these two events which are frequently confused, often used interchangeably, misused, and are not at all the same event. One event is much more benign than most pilots think and the other is much more destructive than most realize. You will learn how to control these events and stop them should you experience them. Break Fried Valves "The Unabashed Truth about Valves." John takes on all the mystery about valve problems and explains the real source of the problems. You will see bad valves and examine the causes of the failure. You will also learn what the pilot can do (and can't do) to affect the health of his engine's valve train. BRUNCH A delicious, home-cooked Sunday Brunch is served in the classroom. Engine Management 301 "Putting it all Together" The entire teaching staff presents a summary of how to apply what you've learned and what is possible in the near future where electronic ignitions systems are concerned and how we can deal with the future loss of 100LL. We will discuss how to read a POH and which information is accurate and which is misleading. You will learn which parts of the POH are trustworthy and which may have been market-driven and how to decide which recommendations to follow in the event that your POH has conflicting information within it. Teaching Engine Management "Hangar-flying this Back Home!" We've all had the experience that we thought we understood something fairly well until we tried to teach it!  Here's where you will learn engine management for real--for good.