Jay Honeck wrote:

Anyone else done this? I feel like I'm ripping myself off, somehow, but I
don't want the plane to be down in the summer, either...

I tried to do this. Keeping my plane on a tie-down, rather than in a hangar, I
prefer to do the annual in nice weather. Since I bought my Maule in July, I let
the annual roll forward for a few years until it was due in October. Then I
tried to keep it there.

The damn IA at the shop I used to use would take any excuse to postpone doing
the annual. I made arrangements to get the plane in the shop in early October,
and it was mid-November before he started on it.

Now I have a great IA and the annual has rolled around to April. Maybe things
can stay that way.

George Patterson
He who marries for money earns every penny of it.