Wiley wrote:
: outdoors untouched for 3 years. As the service dept. of the flight
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: inspection of a neglected airplane. At least now I know the plane is

I don't think I'd call 3 years unloved as neglected. While it's certainly not
good for it, there are a lot of people flying planes out there that sit for long periods
of time (or worse yet, run for 5 minutes on the ground when it's cold out). If it was in
good shape beforehand, the camshaft is probably the main concern.

If the plane truly needed $23k worth of maintainance, it should have been fairly
obvious. As your post states, having a conflict of interest is a bad thing... the main
reason why I don't trust any work that's not a *combination* of my personal inspection,
and a mechanic who knows more than me. It's my butt in the plane if it goes TU.

-Cory

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