Example, pilot purchases say a C182 from an owner, pilot buying the aircraft has only flown Pipers, owner of the C182 has 500 hours on type, no instructors around with C182 time, is it wiser to get the owner to do the checkout or an instructor with no experience on type to do a checkout ?
Lets examine this question to find out the pit falls one can fall into when making this choice.
Legally a licensed flight instructor with no experience on type may only have around three hundred hours total time as a pilot, the selling owner could have thousands of hours as a pilot.
I know who I would chose.