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Borescope Initiative: Savvy’s Latest Program

Savvy Aviation’s successful program that tracks digital engine monitor data to predict engine problems now includes borescope imagery.

Examining a cylinder with a borescope is the gold standard for determining cylinder condition. Borescope prices have dropped dramatically while capabilities have shot upward, including the ability to put the image on a smartphone, as shown here.

We’ve been actively tracking the work and customer offerings of Mike Busch’s Savvy Aviation (www.savvyaviation.com) as it, in our opinion, has endeavored to drag general aviation maintenance into the 21st Century. (Full disclosure: About 10 years ago, as part owners of a Cessna T210 we were a Savvy customer.)

Savvy started life by offering sophisticated maintenance management to piston aircraft owners. It expanded into providing a service that analyzed digital engine monitor data. As the volume of engine monitor data Savvy had received became truly massive, the company became increasingly able to diagnose engine issues and provide warnings to owners when the data showed that there may be a risk of engine damage or failure.

Rick Durden

Senior Editor Rick Durden has written for Aviation Consumer since 1994 and specializes in aviation law. Rick is an active CFII and holds an ATP with type ratings in the Douglas DC-3 and Cessna Citation. He is the author of The Thinking Pilot’s Flight Manual or, How to Survive Flying Little Airplanes and Have a Ball Doing It, Vols. 1 & 2.