Options After Items Flagged as Unairworthy (was TBO and Airworthiness)

On Apr 16, 3:32 pm, "JGalban via AviationKB.com" u32749@uwe wrote:
Denny wrote:
In retrospect, I also wonder what the
insurance company would have had to say if anything had gone wrong?

Tom

We are getting deep into 'what if's', but think it through... The Ins.
Co. says the plane must be kept legally airworthy to be covered for
inflight risk... Who defines what is/not airworthy - the FAA... The
form you have from the FAA says it IS legally airworthy for the
duration of that listed flight...

Maybe not. Every policy I've had stated that the airplane must comply with
its standard airworthiness certificate. If it's out of annual, it's out of
compliance. A special airworthiness certificate (represented by the Ferry
Permit) is not the same as the standard airworthiness certificate. At least
according to the aviation insurance policies I've had experience with.

I've made flights under ferry permits and in all cases, the insurance
companies had to approve the flight and fax a waiver.

John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180)



All of you raise very valid issues and there is abit of debate of
exactly how many forms, permits, and signatures are required when
"ferrying" a plane that has airworthy issues flagged. So I go back to
my original post......

You can either A) "suck it up" and let the 1st shop do the work, OR B)
go thru the process that we both described with ferry permits, etc.
But if you choose B, in
addition to the hassles of permits, signatures, reviews, etc., you
have to ask yourself whether taking it someplace else will really make
enough of a difference to make all those time-consuming hassles
worthwhile? In the end, will you save $50 or 50%??

In our case, we figured we save $50 not 50% so it wasn't worth the
hassle.

--Jeff