Interesting scenario; but I have been asked for some help by my good friends family. Long story short he built an airplane, got it inspected, and has flown it a couple of times. A couple weeks ago he had a terrible stroke and is fighting for his life at the moment. With his age and the severity the doctors say he will never drive again much less fly if he makes it through it. He is a fighter so we keep praying for a hopeful outcome.
The plane has 6ish hours on the hobbs, the family asked if I would do the flight testing and fly the 40 hours off to get it out of phase 1. I've helped my friend work on the plane during the build, confident in the build quality and have no problems personally flying the 40 off for them so they can sell the plane.
My questions are since I'm not the builder what can I legally do to help them out to get the plane out of phase 1? obviously there isn't going to be much value for them if they sell it as is. After the 40 is flown and flight testing conducted what other paper work requirements are there?
Thanks for any suggestions and help during this time.
The plane has 6ish hours on the hobbs, the family asked if I would do the flight testing and fly the 40 hours off to get it out of phase 1. I've helped my friend work on the plane during the build, confident in the build quality and have no problems personally flying the 40 off for them so they can sell the plane.
My questions are since I'm not the builder what can I legally do to help them out to get the plane out of phase 1? obviously there isn't going to be much value for them if they sell it as is. After the 40 is flown and flight testing conducted what other paper work requirements are there?
Thanks for any suggestions and help during this time.