Should I bring tools?

[Guest]

50 minutes ago, Pinecone said:

Those would be A&P work, son=lay need to signed off as done correctly.

Not IA that needs to be certified airworthy.

The point being that failing to make the long entry, regardless of who makes it,  is potentially screwing the next buyer if there is something wrong with the engine or the plane.

Clarence

[Pinecone]

1 hour ago, M20Doc said:

The point being that failing to make the long entry, regardless of who makes it,  is potentially screwing the next buyer if there is something wrong with the engine or the plane.

Clarence

That is a different issue.

I am saying only that there should be no way for the PP shop to hold an airplane hostage.

[Guest]

3 hours ago, Pinecone said:

That is a different issue.

I am saying only that there should be no way for the PP shop to hold an airplane hostage.

I don’t know how a shop could possibly hold someone’s plane hostage.  Anyone have first hand experience with this or is it just another old wives tale?

Clarence

[EricJ]

53 minutes ago, M20Doc said:

I don’t know how a shop could possibly hold someone’s plane hostage.  Anyone have first hand experience with this or is it just another old wives tale?

Clarence

It happens a lot.   This happened when I bought my airplane.   There was an IA doing an annual on the airplane, knew that the airplane was being sold and that the seller wouldn't sell it without the annual completed.   The owner was remote, many states away.  The annual took four months.   The IA just kept finding more things wrong and stretched it out as long as I think he thought could get away with.

I was trying to get the owner to get some control of the situation, but being remote it was difficult.

And I spent a couple years undoing a lot of the bad work that was done during that annual.
 

A friend had an engine failure (broken valve) and had to leave their Arrow AOG away from their home airport.   More than a year later they had to get the sheriff involved to retrieve the pieces of their airplane from the mechanic on that field, including a completely removed and disassembled engine, so that they could get somebody else to reassemble it all and get their airplane back.

In my experience these kinds of stories are not unusual.   If they're rare in Canada it's a testament to you guys up there.

[Pinecone]

A friend took his Tiger to a shop for annual.  And, AFAIK, he never got the plane back.

As I understand it, the shop disassembled it significantly, then something like a year later, a hurricane hit and pretty much destroyed the shop.

But we were talking about pre-purchase, not annuals or broken airplanes.

I wonder at what point just filing an insurance claim and letting them handle the issue makes sense.