'Good' Annual This Year

It would seem like your old shop must have taught my old mechanic how to pad
the bill, eh?

I have seen the IA repair his car and charge the labor to my plane.
Attorney says it would most likely cost more to take them to court.
If they did not have my log books I would have called the Sheriff, got my plane
and said see ya.

Hank N1441P

I have seen the IA repair his car and charge the labor to my plane.

I surely hope that you have posted the name of these criminals somewhere on
Usenet. You've got to save your fellow pilots from these folks!

$35K for an annual goes far beyond the norm, into the realm of the obscene.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

If you want to have a good cry, ask Javier how much his annual cost him this
year {;-)


Jim




"Jay Honeck"
shared these priceless pearls of wisdom:

- I have seen the IA repair his car and charge the labor to my plane.
-
-I surely hope that you have posted the name of these criminals somewhere on
-Usenet. You've got to save your fellow pilots from these folks!
-
-$35K for an annual goes far beyond the norm, into the realm of the obscene.

Jim Weir (A&P/IA, CFI, & other good alphabet soup)
VP Eng RST Pres. Cyberchapter EAA Tech. Counselor
http://www.rst-engr.com

I switched shops this year for my annual . . . because last year the shop
charged me for my OWN labor! I was scheduled to fly down to the field today to
start, but damn if the Pres didn't decide to visit and have his usual 30nm TFR
closing the airport. Oh, well . . . it will end in about an hour . . .


www.Rosspilot.com

"Jeff" wrote in message ...
it wasnt 35 to install tires, it was 35$ to put air in them.
.5 hours labor is what I was charged.

Your shop gets $70/hour? Crikes....

Jeff wrote
it wasnt 35 to install tires, it was 35$ to put air in them.
.5 hours labor is what I was charged.

That sounds excessive.

Unless there's something funky about your tires (maybe some difficult
to remove/reinstall covers) it should not take 10 minutes a tire to
air them.

Michael

In article , "Ron
Natalie" wrote:

it wasnt 35 to install tires, it was 35$ to put air in them.
.5 hours labor is what I was charged.

Your shop gets $70/hour? Crikes....

not to mention taking .5 to put air in.

--
Bob Noel

Jim Weir writes:

If you want to have a good cry, ask Javier how much his annual cost him this
year {;-)

To say NOTHING of the highly abusive request for a six pack of
caffeinated diet coke! That added a whole buck fifty to the bill.

The total expense, including the above six pack, a new battery, 12 new
spark plugs, and a few other consumables, came to something like five
hundred bucks. I own a 1973 Cessna Skylane.

Owner assisted annuals rule. It boils down to sweat equity
vs. checkbook hara-kiri. I did all the prep work over a few evenings,
then Jim came over and did the inspection thing, and I reassembled the
plane over a few more evenings.

Highly recommended.

-jav

Owner assisted annuals rule. It boils down to sweat equity
vs. checkbook hara-kiri. I did all the prep work over a few evenings,
then Jim came over and did the inspection thing, and I reassembled the
plane over a few more evenings.

Highly recommended.


Great in theory. I did it two years in a row, spending 3 full days from 7 AM
till 4:30 PM in the shop doing EVERYTHIUNG the FARs allow me to do (under the
auspices of the IA).

I got billed for MY own labor, and the cost was just as if I had dropped the
plane off and gone fishing for 3 days.

My Skyhawk is in a different shop right now for my 6th annual. I'll let you
know how it goes when I get it back . . .
www.Rosspilot.com

Rosspilot wrote:
I got billed for MY own labor, and the cost was just as if I had dropped the
plane off and gone fishing for 3 days.

I'd still do it. For me, cost savings is only one, fairly minor factor.
In 11+ years, I've rarely allowed my plane to be dissasembled or
assembled, in any way, unless I've been there helping. I want to know
that things are being done correctly, with my own eyes.

-- Jay

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