"Matthew P. Cummings" wrote:
That's plain silly. When I buy a plane there is no way:
I'm letting the mechanic who knows the owner and has
done the previous annuals do my pre-buy.

That wasn't the issue. The problem was that the guy wanted his
mechanic to do an *annual*. That means that the mech. could declare
the aircraft unairworthy for perhaps ridiculous reasons, write 'em up
in the logs and ground the airplane away from home.
--
Dan
C172RG at BFM