Suggestions for Prebuy near GMAX

[Ragsf15e]

5 hours ago, Thedude said:

I bought my plane from jimmy back in September. He recommended Keith Kehoe for the pre buy and annual. I figured there was a risk of conflict there, but Gmax's reputation was good enough.

I had Keith fill the plane to check for fuel leaks and he missed a slow leak on the left tank. I don't fault him for that, there was old staining that seemed to addressed and before the paint job I didn't notice any new leaking. My plane also seems to be a bit out of rig, requiring left rudder in cruise, but I don't how you'd catch that without flying it.

Keith did find that the gear actuator support brace was broken, which he said was pretty common and makes the seat move when the actuator is running. He also spent a couple hours just talking through everything when I finally got out there, and then lent me his bose a30's when we found out my old a10's didn't work in the plane for some reason (still haven't figured that out). I flew back to California with Bob Cabe and he took back the headset. Bob also gave me one of his old headsets until I get a new one. All good people from what I could tell.

I haven't gone through another annual yet, so we'll see what's found, but overall, I'm really happy with the experience and I love flying my plane.

Funny, I have a pair of Bose X that don’t work in my new plane for unknown reasons as well z. All the other ones work fine and that headset works elsewhere…

[Flyler]

5 hours ago, Thedude said:

I bought my plane from jimmy back in September. He recommended Keith Kehoe for the pre buy and annual. I figured there was a risk of conflict there, but Gmax's reputation was good enough.

I had Keith fill the plane to check for fuel leaks and he missed a slow leak on the left tank. I don't fault him for that, there was old staining that seemed to addressed and before the paint job I didn't notice any new leaking. My plane also seems to be a bit out of rig, requiring left rudder in cruise, but I don't how you'd catch that without flying it.

Keith did find that the gear actuator support brace was broken, which he said was pretty common and makes the seat move when the actuator is running. He also spent a couple hours just talking through everything when I finally got out there, and then lent me his bose a30's when we found out my old a10's didn't work in the plane for some reason (still haven't figured that out). I flew back to California with Bob Cabe and he took back the headset. Bob also gave me one of his old headsets until I get a new one. All good people from what I could tell.

I haven't gone through another annual yet, so we'll see what's found, but overall, I'm really happy with the experience and I love flying my plane.

Thanks for the information, Mr. Lebowski.  This is very useful for me.  My (hopefully) plane is in pre-buy inspection at Don Maxwell's now.  I have heard Bob Cabe's name mentioned before and might reach out to him to see if he is willing to make the long trip TX-CT with me.

[Pinecone]

TX - CT is not a long trip in a Mooney.

When I bought mine, the pre-buy was done at T41 outside of Houston.  I did a checkout there and flew it back to NE Maryland solo.