He once personally gave me some advice on a plane and was kind of a jerk about it. I ignored him, and later came to regret that decision! He was right, although his bedside manner, so to speak, left something to be desired.
I wasn’t going to chime in on this thread, because I typically want to only add constructive content.
I found a plane I liked. Most of the features I wanted and a decent deal. A prior buyer had walked away from the plane after a prebuy.
-I reached out to Saavy about their opinions on logbook audit to determine if I wanted to proceed with a prebuy. They suggested I walk away.
-I did my own research in parallel. I even reached out to the prior buyer and then spoke with his A&P to see why they declined the purchase.
I decided to spend money on my own prebuy, then turned it into an annual after purchase. 500 hours later and I’m happy.
Some would say “if you were going to ignore Saavy, then why ask”? Because I did not know what I was going to do, and I didn’t know what I didn’t know. It was part of the learning process, and their input was part of my investment safety net.
My advice is to use your experts; learn from them. Read a lot too. If you have common sense, apply it. If you have mechanical aptitude, apply it as well. If you are lacking in one or both, then rely more heavily on your hired guns, especially if you don’t have time, patience, or aptitude to seek and soak up the knowledge that’s out there. Ain’t nothing wrong with that, we’re all built different.
