Paul, an A&P/AI, wrote: > An annual would be great as long as it is understood that
> this will be a real inspection, not just a paper exercise. That's the point! It does need to be a real inspection, and a good one at that, to assure the buyer that the plane is as represented. It is an extra expense but I would not trust the seller's "fresh annual." I'd want to have an annual done by my own inspector. Admittedly, when I bought my Coupe, it had just finished an extensive annual/fix-up with the mechanic at the airport where I was learning to fly. It was, so to speak, the seller's AI. But, for all future business, he would be my A&P/AI and, knowing him, I knew him to be a trustworthy person. He did tell me right and I got exactly what I thought I was getting. If someone requested you, as an A&P or AI, to do a "pre-purchase inspection" then it should be agreed, in writing, just what would be inspected, what would not be inspected and what the implications would be in skipping the things skipped. Going down a printed checklist and having the buyer (pre-purchase inspection customer) mark and initial item-by-item could make it clear. Percy's campaign for it to be a true, proper, annual inspection and have the sale contingent on the results via a purchase agreement sounds good. Ed Ed Burkhead http://edburkhead.com/Ercoupe/index.htm East Peoria, Illinois ed -at- edburk???head.??com (remove the ? marks and change -at- to @)
