Well, I know you can get a good job cheaper than here in CA, but then there's the logistics of getting the plane somewhere else, then not being around to monitor or check up on things as the work progresses, or DOESN'T!!! It isn't practical for me to fly to Tenn. for a paint job, then have to airline back and forth, hotels, the long flight in a 150, weather, and so on. All that can eat up any money you save going out of state. I could always hire or get some starving flight instructor who wants to build time to ferry it for me, but that too has it's own set of problems.
You can't even get good rattle can paint here in the 9 SFO Bay Area counties.They "smogged" it, it's like 1/2 the paint and a different propellant. Lousy! Gotta mail order it if you want good stuff, fortunatly AC Spruce and Chief can still ship us the good stuff.
-Brian
BTW- I need a paint job badly! I just did the engine, and the next phase is cosmetics. I have an AEROBAT, so that's a bit more in price due to all the checkerboard and stripes on the wing. Still, the '73 Aerobat had the best scheme of all the Aerobat paint designs (IMHO), so that's what I'm going to keep it as.
Last edited by BrianAnderson; 09/10/06 02:14 AM.
