On the subject of 150's, At 08:41 AM 6/11/99 PDT, you wrote: >Hi folks, >Unfortunately, it's looking like the A2 in Indiana's not going to happen for >me. I got out-bid by someone who was willing to take her immediately, sight >unseen.
This happened to a friend a couple of weeks ago, with an old 150 that the guy wanted $13,000 for. My friend offered the full amount, on the condition that it passed a pre-purchase inspection. Well, the owner didn't like that, and settled for another offer of $12,500 from someone who offered to buy it "sight unseen". I think that a seller who doesn't want a pre-purchase inspection is kind of screwy, or isn't confident of the plane. Maybe there are strange mods or unapproved parts, or even a bad spar! I think you were smart to avoid that plane. Oh, here's another tip that I didn't think of when we bought ours: I don't know why, but neither I or the pre-purchase mechanic checked the weight and balance info. We made sure it HAD weight and balance data, but neither of us thought to make sure it was correct. Well, it turned out that the weight and balance info didn't include all of the new radios. A correct weight and balance could not be calculated with the available data. So, I ended up having to get the thing weighed. Finding a mechanic who owns a set of scales isn't as easy as it sounds! If this happens, it can be a real bad deal if you find out that the plane weighs a lot more than you think, and you can't carry as much weight as you need to. Useful load isn't usually the first thing you think of when buying a plane. Luckily ours weighed nearly the same as the original factory weight. Apparently the factory weight included a radio that weighed about as much as all of our new avionics combined. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Steve Dold ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://home.pacbell.net/sdold/ Say NO to useless over-quoting ----------------------------------------------------------------
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