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Some of my favorite pre pre-buy inspection conversations with the buyer. 1) just call the shop that just did the annual to find out what they did. 2) the shop is really big, they work on jets too. 3) this is the only PA 46 that they have ever seen. 4) it has a great panel and you could eat...

Just finished the prebuy on a Jetprop in Tulsa. He wouldn't send the log book copies on the $750,000 airplane. Luckily no major problems except for a poorly performing windshield. What's another $28,000 for a windshield? This thread reminds me I've got to get my 172 logs copied and ready to...

I probably do at least one pre-buy a week. I do all that I can to get copies of all logs to do my research before I leave. Many times the movement stops do to what I find in the research. It kills a lot of my time researching the logs when I can focus my time on the aircraft. I always look...

I wish I knew. Some talk of engine failure. The aircraft should be recoverable. Well liked people that will be missed

I'm getting tired of loosing old friends. A Jetprop went down yesterday at Felts killing two longtime employees of Rocket Engineering. This was not a post conversion flight. Must have been after maintenance. It was one that I worked on in the past. Not a lot of details. Quick steep turn and into...

It wasn't that long ago that we just did a simple run-out on the flange and put the engine back into service with a prop repair or replacement only. I've done many temporary in field repairs and flew it back home on a ferry permit to finish the repairs.

Local FSDO tagged 3 Malibus because the Registration wasn't contrasting enough.

We used to put old appliances and other unwanted items with a free sign out next to the road by our shop at KHUT for easy disposal. They would go so quickly. My wife and I would make bets on how long they would last. I would have bet my father in law anything that the old carpet he drug out of...

I do pre-buys all of the time. Sticking with pretty much the same aircraft most of the time really works out for me. I know where to look. I also provide a retail estimate of what it will take to address the squawks. They can negotiate that into the final price and fly away with the new plane...

I got inertia reels in my 172 when I installed the Amsafe airbag belts. I think that the recoil tension is a little tight but have gotten use to it.

I'm getting mine ready for sale sometime. I'm also trying to find the time to get the annual done too. We are the 2nd owner, NDH, complete logs, ( We bought Sept. 2006 ) always hangared since new 1977 172N N733BE, 2825 hrs total aprox. O320-H2AD 850 hrs SMOH aprox. Original paint and...

I would still dump the oil check both the suction screen and filter. I had one Mirage with 15 minutes and another with 3.5 hrs since fresh annuals. Big pieces in both suction screens and both were removed after that for repair. Obviously nobody looked. One of the shops said that the buyer...

When did you graduate. March 3, 1979 for me, it's still seared into my mind.

I've owned two. It was a lot easier when I had had my shop and people to work on them. I thought that I would have all of this extra time to fly and maintain the planes after I sold the place. I still don't have the time to fly, I'm on the road working on other peoples planes. I can't hardly...

I may be partial but I think you should go to Spartan School for your A&P. I hired so many of their graduates over the years. They all seemed to be well prepared for the work. Many years ago in CA I hired a fresh graduate from a local school. He shows up with no box and he had a claw hammer...

Congratulations! You have a license to learn now. It's 36 years now for me as a licensed A&P and I'm still learning. I still love what I do and I hope you will too.

That's what I have often wondered. The oil and method of operations haven't changed. The materials are the only thing left and they are being supplied by the cheapest vendor.

I always get an uneasy feeling when I pull a Mirage cylinder because I have found so many wiped cam lobes and lifter bodies. Many were engines operated between 100 and 200 hrs a year. I began seeing a big increase in the problem back in the early 80s.

Sorry for the bad experience. The lifter and cam spalling issue has always been a problem. I've seen some Navajo and Mirage engines go so far the the large end of the lifter body actually broke off. Then the engine is pretty much scrap. If you start seeing small shards or splinter size...

The good ole days. When I get home I'm going to hook up my Kellogg Red bar wall phone. Those old phones has good action.