Transponder/Pitot-Static check

[Mooneymite]

I just got my transponder/pitot-static check done.  I used the same guy I used last year.  Ray travels around the southeast and comes right to your hangar, so there's no transportation/waiting issue.

 

 Ray Allen's Electronics Inc

53a-6 Hangar Drive
Butler, GA 31006 - View Map

Phone: (478) 862-3033

Cell:  (478) 837-1098

 

Ray charged me $260, but this June, he's going up $20.  

 

I was wondering what everyone else pays.

 

This is the seventh check I've done since I've owned the plane.  It has never needed any adjustments, or corrections.

 

Seems like a huge waste of money to be doing this every 2 years.

 

 

 

[Hank]

I don't recall what mine cost, but I've had to OH the altimeter and ASI [together one time, and just Alt one time]. Seems to be worth the effort, to say nothing of being legally able to file IFR.

[1964-M20E]

I pay about the same.  Yes seems like a waste but at least it is every 2 years not every year.

[Mooneymite]

I pay about the same.  Yes seems like a waste but at least it is every 2 years not every year.

 

I can tell, you're a "half-full" type of guy.   

[Hank]

I can't speak for John, but I'm an engineer. The glass is not half full; the glass is not half empty. The glass is simply too large. 

 

Guess I've been in manufacturing for too long . . . . . .

[N601RX]

Paid $280 last year.  That usually includes getting in one of the owners classics and going to lunch in style.

[Mooneymite]

Paid $280 last year.  That usually includes getting in one of the owners classics and going to lunch in style.

Hmmmmm.  That's not out of a hangar that has all sorts of cool airplanes/war-birds is it?  Wiley Sanders' place?

[N601RX]

No, I use Jules Moffit in Wetumpka, Al. When airplane work slowed down a few years ago he took up a hobby of restoring old cars.  He had 4 or 5 in his hanger last time I was there.  They are all in their Mid 80's and still go work every day.

 

There are some nice P51's in the Troy hanger.

[laytonl]

Ray comes to North Carolina too. I pay whatever Ray says. Lee

[N201MKTurbo]

I've paid between $150 and $350. $260 seems like a fair price.

[Mooneymite]

Sad news....

I talked to Ray a couple of days ago.  Ray's wife who generally accompanied him on his sojourns, passed in January.  Ray is back doing the IFR checks, but with a heavy heart.