On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 15:31:29 +0200, Mxsmanic wrote:

Ron Wanttaja writes:

The average General Aviation aircraft is more than 30 years old. A new plane
requires a cash outlay an order of magnitude higher. And *no* buyer is the very
first person to fly the aircraft. Not all ferry pilots are as genteel as
NW_Pilot.

I'd fix that by riding with the ferry pilot, or by picking the plane
up myself.

If you bought a new 172, the plane would require a special waiver to have
long-range fuel tanks installed and flown across the Atlantic to France. The
waiver wouldn't allow the ferry pilot to carry a passenger...and it would take
you a long, long time to get qualified to make the flight yourself.

And they're still not going to let you climb in at the exit point of the
assembly line and be the first person to fly the airplane....

Ron Wanttaja