Rigged4Flight
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So it's been a while since my last post here. I stopped visiting/posting because I had at least a year to go before I could even start my PPL training and I felt like a starving person looking in the window of a restaurant.
Anyway, I'm ready now to find/purchase a small IFR certified trainer. Other than The Big Step of the actual purchase, I've got to admit that I'm frankly intimidated as heck by the whole process. The biggest hurdles I'm looking at all stem from my need to find/purchase a plane before I get home. Yup - before I get home.
I don't think that buying a plane sight unseen is a good idea, but given my circumstances I need to make it work. I'm in Afghanistan. Once I get back to the USA, I have a block of 30-45 days that I can devote exclusively to flying. When that block of time is up, I need to get back to earning a living and I won't have much time to spare (and I may even be overseas again). Hence my desire to front-load the purchase of the plane and have it ready to go when I get home. I know I don't live in a perfect world, but if I did, it would show me as the proud owner of a gently used IFR trainer, ready and able to be a reliable daily flier within the next month.
So everything I'm looking at wanting to do, and the way I need to get them done, all seem to all lead me to thinking that hiring someone to find, evaluate and handle the purchase of the plane for me is making a lot of sense. Do purchasing agents (brokers? not sure of the proper term) handle situations like this for a price limit of ~$30K? (I'm looking hard at C150s and possibly 172s.)
So how would I find and evaluate someone that I could work with in this capacity? I'm sure I'm not the first person to do this. Any/all suggestions, critiques, etc would be appreciated.
Anyway, I'm ready now to find/purchase a small IFR certified trainer. Other than The Big Step of the actual purchase, I've got to admit that I'm frankly intimidated as heck by the whole process. The biggest hurdles I'm looking at all stem from my need to find/purchase a plane before I get home. Yup - before I get home.
I don't think that buying a plane sight unseen is a good idea, but given my circumstances I need to make it work. I'm in Afghanistan. Once I get back to the USA, I have a block of 30-45 days that I can devote exclusively to flying. When that block of time is up, I need to get back to earning a living and I won't have much time to spare (and I may even be overseas again). Hence my desire to front-load the purchase of the plane and have it ready to go when I get home. I know I don't live in a perfect world, but if I did, it would show me as the proud owner of a gently used IFR trainer, ready and able to be a reliable daily flier within the next month.
So everything I'm looking at wanting to do, and the way I need to get them done, all seem to all lead me to thinking that hiring someone to find, evaluate and handle the purchase of the plane for me is making a lot of sense. Do purchasing agents (brokers? not sure of the proper term) handle situations like this for a price limit of ~$30K? (I'm looking hard at C150s and possibly 172s.)
So how would I find and evaluate someone that I could work with in this capacity? I'm sure I'm not the first person to do this. Any/all suggestions, critiques, etc would be appreciated.