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If you combine both limitations, you could fly with only 2 qts in the sump while the engine burns 1 qt every 4 hours, which means as...

Sure, and Lycoming also says that an engine can burn up to around 1 quart of oil every 4 hours, and still be airworthy (0.006 lbs. / HP...

More oil will run cooler. Experience and geometry says so. More oil occupies more of the tank or sump walls, and it spends more time...

So far so good. Now consider that the amount of heat that the sump itself (the metal tub or oil pan) can absorb and shed or radiate...

Consider a hypothetical oil sump that is infinitely large. Every drop of oil the pump draws from the sump and pushes through the engine...

The oil cooler isn't the only place where oil sheds heat. Many engines don't have an oil cooler at all, so all the heat is lost via...

Here's one possible explanation for this notion. I don't know whether it is correct, but it seems intuitive to me. As each drop of oil...

Agreed, this is the most likely explanation. With a fixed pitch prop, any time the airplane hits any updraft, downdraft, or pocket of...

Interesting. On a related note, COMM radios can jam GPS and other signals into the GHz range because they always have some amount of...

Sure, but if you somehow mess up (hard to imagine how) sliding it in and out of the rack, the impact is the same. You're allowed to...

Sure, but why? Most regs are based on some kind of reason. Often that reason is clear, but in this case I can't imagine why it's fine to...

Why not DMEs?

The coolant additive that Subaru recommended for the model years that were prone to head gasket failures was Holt's Radweld. It smells...

UOA should also detect this condition. The typical case is high Potassium, but there may also be other elements like Sodium involved.

If the car is not overheating, any amount of air ingested should be small and naturally bubble out as you run the engine. As it does, it...