Student buying an airplane
- Thread starter drgwentzel
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It's a non issue though as twin yokes can be rented and are easily swapped.
MBDiagMan
Final Approach
Absolutely, but if I understood the OP correctly, he will have to put his own butt in the plane to give the owner flying lessons. I can't blame him AT ALL for wanting to have confidence in the aircraft that he has to go up in.
When I bought the piggy and found a new instructor, he wanted to see the logs and go over the airplane himself before he would go up with me. I couldn't blame him a bit.
Sure, it's his money. What is likely to happen is that he starts to dump money on this plane to get it to fly, within a year he is going to pass the 60k mark before he gets disgusted and walks away from it. The world will have one more person telling anyone who wants to hear it or not that flying is impossibly expensive and that no student should ever buy his own aircraft.
I call that a 50/50 without knowing the guy. There are lucky people in the world.
bnt83
Final Approach
Its a Beech with built in quality. Never mind the carry thru cracking, and numerous potential corrosion issues including wing attach fittings.
Look at all those moving parts and rest assured it's Beech quality and not worn out or corroded.
http://bonanza.org/documents/ABS Landing Gear Maintenance Guide.pdf
Arbiter419
Cleared for Takeoff
Very very fair point. And this could very well be one of those scenarios...Possible, not probable I suppose.