What? Are you crazy? Why can't you fly it home in the winter? I flew my Coupe all winter down to about -10°F. You DO want to get a pre-heat of the engine below about +20° or so. Winter has some of the best flying weather even way up north.
For winter flying, especially up north, do take some extra precautions. DO bundle up like a mummy to do the pre-flight with your heavy parka over your lighter jacket, long underwear and good gloves and, if needed a balaclava. You DON'T want to skimp on your preflight inspection at ANY time of the year. The reason for the light jacket under the heavy parka is just in case you do have a forced landing so you'll already have some layer of coat on. Watch the weather reports and leave yourself plenty of time. Do GOOD flight planning and use flight following or some other tracking. Borrow or rent (or even buy) a Personal Locator Beacon to supplement your ELT and, if anything happens, turn it on way up in the air right after you've set up your stabilized glide toward your chosen landing spot. You Coupe will fly better in that very cold temperature. Engine power is higher and climb is great! Make sure the heat muff is good before you take off. Make sure the cold cabin air vent is closed even if that means putting duct tape over the air intake for cabin air. My Coupe was quite comfortably warm at -5° but some others are not (till they've been tweaked). You might want a very good hat, gloves and insulated boots as you don't know this plane till you've flown it. Where are you picking up the plane? Ed
