You don't need to be in a club to have a partner but a club is a great
place to find one.Â* Here at Moriarty, NM we have both a club and an
active FBO and I know of two partnerships, both are among non-club members.

When I was looking for more performance than my ASW-19, I approached a
friend with whom I'd been flying for about two years.Â* He flew a Grob
102, also a Standard Class ship.Â* Since we'd flown together, we knew
that our capabilities were similar and, by pooling our resources we were
able to buy an LS-6a.Â* We made a written agreement though we never had
to use it to settle a disagreement.Â* We simply asked/discussed any
changes or deviations we wanted.

Good luck with finding a good partner and a great ship!


On 10/12/2017 5:45 PM, OHM Ω http://aviation.derosaweb.net wrote:
First, BUY A SHIP! You will not regret it.

Second, and this was already said above, but bears repeating, start looking within your club. I really don't know if having a partner that is located at another club is going to work very well, if at all. Would you drive the glider, in the trailer of course (you mention "sitting in the hangar" above), back and forth depending on whose weekend it is to fly? Unless the clubs are very close by (few, if any, are that close to one another) then a partner in the same club is the only way this is going to work. My $0.02.

Finally, while an equal partnership is in my experience universal (1/2, 1/3 or 1/4, etc interest each), something other than equal could be a possibility. The devil in in the details.

Best of luck!

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Dan, 5J