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Thats part of the reason I walked away. The owner recently purchased the plane and has been flying it. After looking over the plane I believe it will be due for annual soon as the current owner stated he hasn't had to do one yet. In my brain he is realizing the annual will be expensive and is...

What’s the most concerning thing you see? This is a plane for sale that I recently looked at. Already decided to walk away from it. Should’ve taken more photos of the engine bay but as a decision was made I decided not to take any more of his time.

The most recent airplane I looked at was a Zenith 601XL. Overall it looked nice. However, the owner was unwilling to let me look under the cowl after I drove 7 hours to see the plane, battery was almost dead and it wouldn't start in the cold. The engine had cooling issues and he was adamant that...

Follow up question. If you were selling a plane and a potential buyer used it as a reference when providing an offer how would you respond? As an example, I can find a handful of Ercoupe 415's listed near the Vref price, but if I look at a Piper or a Cessna the Vref price is substantially lower...

Not your normal thread- I hope. Is there a place that a person can find actual sale prices of airplanes recently? I see ads on the common sites and the prices seem to be getting slightly better than they were a year ago. But Vref still has them appraised significantly lower if it's the common...

Great points from everyone. Yes, I can afford both. The question I need to answer myself is if I have the time to commit to an instrument rating as deep down I know I'll use it more. When I got my Private cert, the school I learned at had a sitdown ground school which I prefer to learning by...

It looks like my dreams of owning an airplane are not going to come to fruition anytime soon. So now I'm trying to decide how to spend some of the money I had set aside for an airplane purchase. I would like to eventually get both a tailwheel endorsement and an instrument rating. Which would you...

But would you consider buying an already built EAB plane with a Jabiru engine in it?

Yep, I saw that as well, but I've also seen lots of reports that the engines overall are dependable. Like all engines they seem to have quirks about them. So far I've been able to find that some models of the Jabiru 3300 can have difficulties starting as the ignition system is a power hog and...

I'm in discussion with a gentleman getting ready to sell an experimental with a Jabiru 3300 engine in it. While talking to him on the phone he fumbled along with which generation Jabiru engine the plane has in it. I've done a decent amount of google searching to see if I could find an answer but...

Not for IR.

I started my Navy career as an avionics tech so wiring doesn't scare me too much. Might need to read some things as a refresher but I've done my fair share of wiring with regular wires, coax, fiber, etc...

LOL, I like the Vans lineup but have concerns about actual finished cost as it seems like every RV builder says their planes cost well above the estimated prices once they factor in all the odds and ends that are needed to complete the build. Thought about an RV-14 but from what I've read your...

Trying to find a local-ish 650 so we can experience the entry/exit for ourself. While 110-120 knots isn't fast, its fast enough for us and ultimately we want to do light traveling with it.

Yep, saw that and it looks like it only concerned the 601XL, the mod should be easy to see with some research on how its done. However, I'm leaning towards the 650 as its got a bigger internal cockpit area with the larger canopy and if I'm building I'm going to build the newest iteration of the...

FYI- just discovered how to update the thread title. Figured I'd keep it Zenith CH650 centered as that is what I'm leaning toward.

Buying one already built is an option. Just gotta find one that's for sale and doesn't look like it requires a ton of work to get it to a flyable status. If it does, I feel like building would have an advantage. Side note, was your final empty weight close to the advertised empty weight? What...

She's not bad thats for sure. Guess I can keep her around for a few more years. :)

We did and seating side to side seemed a little tight but not terrible. On the flight I noticed there was virtually nowhere that my wife would be able to comfortably rest her feet as she doesn't like to be on the rudders with me and I can appreciate that.

I got the Rod Machado instrument book and lost interest in it after trudging through half of it. Maybe it was me, but I just didn't care for his organization of information on the pages. Admittedly, I lost interest in the weather section and I know that is probably the section most people...