Its quite depressing to see my plane
in so many pieces. I've also discovered that its extreamly irritating
that the aircraft parts places are closed on weekends.

What I like is when you have everything in neat little tupperware cups
underneath the appropriate parts of the plane -- and then the shop
moves the plane. Or they pull an extension cord under your plane, and
lasso all the parts buckets. Or they get kicked over. THAT is my pet
peeve about doing an annual.


Get your mechanic to come to your hangar.

This worked really well for me, I had the plane all taken apart,
lubricated, etc., by the time Jim came over and did his IA thing.

No parts were lost, the plane wasn't pushed around, etc. Worked really well.

Of course, I'm having one hell of a time finding a Jim Equivalent Person
here in NC now, so I'm slowly starting to fret about this year's annual.

Say Jim, I send you an airline ticket...

-jav