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One shop will say $700.00 for the anual another $1000.00 and
the third at 1400.00. I am sure that inspection tome should be the same. Shop rates can vary, but how much?? In the New England area shop rates vary from $50 an hour to $80 an hour on averag. My shop is $67 an hour. Lots of shops give away annual labor in order to gain money on parts sales and follow on business. Other shops have decided to bill accurately and completely for every job from the start. I always stress that the fixed price is for the inspection and the labor to gain access but does not include service items and repairs. We record time in tenths of an hour increments. Again why do shops give an estimate to do the annual, then add for additional parts and labor. Because I generally know how long the actual inspection will take. That is one fixed cost in the entire annual process that I can guarrantee. Our shop decided some time ago that the fixed rates established by the manufacturers seem to low and addded 5 to 10 hours to most of them based on our own time reports provided by our mechanics. The cost of parts and additional labor to correct discrepancies cannot really be known unless you see the aircraft regularly between annuals and sometimes not even then. John Dupre' |
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