Powerplant Maintenance
by Dale Hurst
Avotek's Powerplant Textbook, is the fourth in a series of four textbooks written for the beginning aviation maintenance student in accordance to standard A&P part 147 curriculum. The powerplant section details the theory, operation and maintenance of aircraft reciprocating, turboprop, and turbojet engines. Each system in each type of engine is covered in depth including its core components, ignition, fuel metering, induction, electrical, lubrication, cooling, starting, and instrument systems, as well as inspection techniques and troubleshooting. In addition, chapter 3 covers the variety propeller systems as used on small aircraft to large turboprops. This is a well written book with clear drawings and photos, and does a good job explaining aircraft powerplant systems in an intuitive and understandable way.
New in the second edition, material was added to reflect the changes in methods and technology used in the maintenance industry. The reciprocating engine area has a new section on Engine Familiarization and Differences. Content was added to the turbine section to cover VLJ engines. New content was added to the propeller section as well.
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Chapter 1: Reciprocating Engines
Section 1: Reciprocating engine theory
Section 2: design and construction
Section 3: Inspection maintenance and operation
Chapter 2: Reciprocating Engine Systems
Section 1: Engine Instrument Systems
Section 2: Engine Lubrication Systems
Section 3: Ignition and Starting Systems
Section 4: Engine Fuel and Metering Systems
Section 5: Electronic Engine Systems
Section 6: Induction and Airflow Systems
Section 7: Engine Cooling Systems
Section 8: Engine Exhaust Systems
Section 9: Reciprocating Engine Familiarization and Differences
Chapter 3: Turbine Engines
Section 1: Turine Engine Theory and Development
Section 2: Turbine Engine Principals
Section 3: Turbine Engine nomenclature
Section 4: Inspection maintenance and operation
Chapter 4: Turbine Engine Systems
Section 1: Engine Instrument systems
Section 2: Engine Lubrication systems
Section 3: Ingnition and starting
Section 4: Engine Fuel and Fuel Metering systems
Section 5: Electronic Engine systems<
Section 6: Inlets and Nacelles
Section 7: Turbine Cooling Systems
Section 8: Turbine Engine Exhaust systems
Section 9: Turbine Engine Familiarization and Differences
Chapter 5: Propeller Systems
Section 1: basic propeller principles
Section 2: types of propellers
Section 3: fixed pitch propellers
Section 4: turboprop propellers
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