I agree that you should take the time to look into things throughly too.
I suppose that you can take this to extremes too (either way, too little
time or too much time). I certainly want to have an "expert" check out
the aircraft and associated logs carefully. My thought was that this
particular shop (Byerly) would be well prepared to do this. As far at
the time goes for how long the pre-buy would take I was just going by
what the shop said. Anyway no harm no foul. The search continues. Thanks!!

Jon Kraus
PP-ASEL-IA
Student airplane purchaser

Morgans wrote:
"Jon Kraus" wrote in message
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Sensitive enough to stick up for myself yes...


I was a bit harsh. What I meant to say, was it is better off, from a
mechanic's viewpoint, to really take the time to tear into things, (not just
look on the surface) to find all the things that will cost you money down
the road, with an airplane you do not own yet.

With an airplane you already own, you will have to suck it up and keep
fixing things as they come up. It will take less time inspecting it, to do
that. IMHO