The Magnum Mirage has a new carbon ûfiber cowling designed to fix sub-optimal ûengine cooling.

For many owners of Piper’s Malibu Mirage, the experience can best be described as schizophrenic. On the one hand, the airplane is comfortable, fast and a delightful long-distance traveling machine. On the other, its Lycoming TSIO-540-AE2A has proven cantankerous, fuel-thirsty, hot running and unlikely to make claimed TBO without major mid-time work.

If that rocky marriage between a terrific airframe and a maintenance-hungry engine sounds like the perfect aftermarket fix-up project, that’s exactly how Enhanced Flight Group looks at it. EFG has undertaken and will soon market a range of pricey upgrades to the Mirage that, if they deliver, should fundamentally reshape the airplane’s performance and reliability. …