CaptainOveur

OP, you know best how you learn. Accelerated worked best for me because of recency and immersion, but each of us is different. First time in actual ALONE (and yes it should be alone) will give you goosebumps. Try to ensure it is in "safe" IMC -- like a nice marine layer (maybe OVC 020 with tops at 3-4,000, VFR above). Find some of the great "personal minimums" guidance posted/online, be VERY conservative, and get experience. IFR skills are perishable, practice filing and flying IFR as much as practicable, even when it takes longer or is not as convenient. Find buddies to team up with for safety pilot and work with each other.

Do you have a cite for info for this STC please? Is this the one with the helo pistons?

Pretty much every Ferrari built is sold before it is built nowadays...one has to be on a list to buy one. Imagine were that the case for Mooneys!! And let's not even think about resale value and appreciation...

Thank you for responding. Your post reflects you are knowledgeable and informed. The poster to whom I was responding stated facts that seemed at odds with common sense. Your specific facts also contradict what was posted. That helps a new reader to know what facts actually are, so we can understand which posters are informed and which just state stuff without any factual basis. Shifting gears, is just opining without any actual basis how one gets to be a "senior member"?

What a cool adventure and cool thing for your grandson to pass along to his own grandkids someday!

True, this is why airline that has ever had an accident should be shut down immediately...and the Blue Angels and Thunderbird too...and those guys in Italy...

BTW how does this "senior member" stuff work? Is there something I need to read or study, or can anyone join? Or maybe I will just not learn anything or bother to read anything but keep opining anyway...?

This seems a very sensible view ... except for those of us who want MY NEEDS MET NOW NOW NOW!!! Did the internet give us that? Or just give those of us who think like that a megaphone? Hard to tell, I don't know the answer and maybe it is not worth thinking about since we have the internet. Back to the cave for me!

Thanks, just asking questions and making observations. Is that allowed?

Man, these ARE tough birds...

Do you opine on the other groups you are too busy to find about out, or is it just this one? It's amazing you have such depth of knowledge about Blues, Birds and the Caravan groups around the country. How do you find the time?

Seems like a great strategy for you, who is obviously a very busy guy, and for all of these other groups, who manage to get by as well without you. Works for everyone, keep it up!

So no Caravan pilots fly at all during the year except for the particular Caravan event? That seems reckless...why wouldn't they practice during the year at all? Just one flight a year, huh?

Seems to me if the log entry was other than right before the buyer took possession, the involved A&P would just say "the airworthy part was on there when it left MY shop." It would be pretty tough for the new buyer to prove definitively that an airworthy part installed a year ago, or five years ago, had not been R+R'd with a now-unairworthy part. That would require the seller's cooperation (and indeed every owner/operator since the offending log entry). This is why people hate lawyers, but don't hate the players, hate the game...

Mike Busch/Savvy have an exemplar Pre-Buy agreement on their website and do a lot of this work. Unlike an "annual" or "100 hour," "Pre-Buy" is not really a defined term. It can mean whatever is defined in the scope of work, if there is one. So it is not clear there is any recourse based on these facts, since it is not clear what the inspector was engaged to do. Of course, if it was "determine airworthiness" and the inspector pronounced it "airworthy," and it was clearly not, that may be a different story. Hard to know without all the facts.

Deploying the chute almost certainly totals the plane, the structure is designed to absorb the hard hit (<1700 fpm). https://cirrusaircraft.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/CAPS_Guide.pdf Interestingly, a spin or loss of control mandates a pull, in many other cases in which it has been pulled it is only recommended.