Author: Jacqueline Shipe
In this article—the first in a series describing various preventive maintenance actions—A&P Jacqueline Shipe goes through the entire process of…
A&P Jacqueline Shipe describes how to service wheel bearings in this article, the second in a DIY series for pilots…
In the third article in a DIY series for pilots, A&P Jacqueline Shipe goes through the steps an owner can…
Finding and repairing a broken circuit is the subject of this fourth installment of A&P Jacqueline Shipe’s DIY series. Among…
Jacqueline Shipe, A&P, explains the technology and preventive maintenance for aviation batteries in her sixth DIY article targeted to owner-pilots. The…
A&P Jacqueline Shipe details the process of changing the oil and filter on an aircraft in this fifth installment in…
What is, and what isn’t, typical. Engine oil has several functions. Its primary purpose is to reduce friction and wear…
Engine oil provides lubrication and cooling for an aircraft’s engine. Ensuring your oil pressure remains “in the green” is…
In the last of Piper Flyer’s series on owner-performed preventive maintenance, A&P Jacqueline Shipe looks at the servicing and replacement of…
Corrosion attacks camshafts and lifters before most other bottom-end engine parts, especially when an aircraft doesn’t fly frequently. Learn how…
A look inside your aircraft’s vacuum system. When the earliest airplane gyroscopic instruments were introduced, the only available…
Many Piper aircraft depend on a carburetor. Piper Flyer contributing editor and A&P Jacqueline Shipe explains the operation of…
