On Tue, 05 Sep 2006 17:18:43 -0700, wrote:

One obviously has to have a prepurchase inspection done.

In a perfect world:

1)The inspection would be by a mechanic that is familiar with the aircraft type.
2)The inspection would be done by the mechanic that is going to maintain the plane on an ongoing basis.
3)The inspection is not done by the mechanic that was maintaining the plane.

If the plane in question is out of your area how do you do 1,2,3?

How is this problem solved?

You pay your mechanic to travel to the airplane and perform the inspection.

I suppose you could somehow arrange for the aircraft to be flown to your
mechanic's shop.


If you have a remote mechanic do the prepurchase, how do you trust the
care and honesty of someone you will only do business with once and
is far far away?

See Above




Paul

Ron (EPM) (N5843Q, Mooney M20E) (CP, ASEL, ASES, IA)