Oil Analysis Solutions for Reliability and Maintainability

In aviation there is no room for errors or slack maintenance. No pilot takes off with his fingers crossed and hopes for the best. Using oil analysis is an invaluable tool to look into the health of your aircraft engine. Oil analysis has the ability to look at leading indicators and determine if a failure mode is present. Correcting these before they become more expensive problems. .

Ground systems present a great opportunity for fleet managers to reduce cost and increase system availability. The oils in production today allow for many vehicles to use condition based maintenance to increase oil change intervals. Along with increasing change intervals a well thought out condition monitoring system has the potential to detect major system failures, allowing fleet managers to mitigate potential failures at a reduced cost, and on a schedule. Remember one engine, or transmission failure avoided will pay for years of oil analysis conducted, even on small fleets of vehicles

Most oil analysis labs consider non-certified aircraft engines as they would Lycomings or Continentals. While some general rules hold true, there are may differences that require additional understanding of these unique engines. Consider the Rotax 912, UL Power or Corvair aircraft engines. All produce 100HP but are radically different from similar HP output Lycoming or Continental engines. Our approach is to treat every conversion as an individual and not compare them to standard aircraft power plants.

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