BeechTalk - BT

Username Protected · **Posted:** 17 Apr 2012, 14:24

What a great resource!! I am new to bonanzas and have had a great time flying a 1979 A36 over the past year. I love this plane! I have flown 150 hrs in the Bo over the last 12 months and feel like I am getting to know her better now.
I got my instrument and commercial ratings in this great plane.
I appreciate the great enthusiasm and knowledge of the forum. I was absent from general aviation from 1997 to 2010 and boy did I miss it.
My situation is somewhat different in that I was fortunate to get stick time in T37s, T38s, F16s, F15s, C12s(KA 200), C21s(Lear 35) and C 130s during my absence from general aviation but I will be the first to admit feeling like a complete clueless idiot in a Cessna 172 after not flying as PIC for 13 years!! At least I have knocked a good bit of the rust off now.
My background: former USAF flight surgeon and eye surgeon. Member of the night vision training team. Current job- regular ole eye surgeon. And when I feel the "doctor flying a bonanza" stigma I just put on the T shirt that says " Leave me alone-I flew before I was a doctor"
Thanks again to all for the great learning and humor I have gotten reading this forum. I got brave enough to introduce myself and look forward to being more active in this great group.

Scott Massios

Username Protected · **Posted:** 17 Apr 2012, 14:51

Scott,
welcome to Beechtalk, great intro,
I have to agree, this is Great forum.
Got any pics of that fin e flyin machine?

Username Protected · **Posted:** 17 Apr 2012, 17:00

Welcome Scott! Where are you based in SC? I'm from Michigan, but spend a fair amount of time in The Upstate.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 17 Apr 2012, 17:09

What took you so long to come out of the lurker's closet?

Welcome. 'Hope to see you post often.

BTW...you must post photos of your plane (wife photos also appreciated). :cheers:

Username Protected · **Posted:** 17 Apr 2012, 19:20

Username Protected wrote:

...(wife photos also appreciated). :cheers:

I feel another thread about to start... :drool:

Username Protected · **Posted:** 17 Apr 2012, 20:00

Thanks for the Welcome! I am based at KCEU. Sometimes difficult for a UVa grad to live in the Clemson area but I wear my Virginia colors proudly.
I don't have many glamour shots yet (of the plane) but will attach a few that I have now. I think I will wait until my wife gets out of annual until I post her pics

I tossed in the photo of the Eagle to remind myself what it was like to be young, fit and stupid. Now I am not as young, not as fit, but still stupid.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 17 Apr 2012, 20:58

Great intro and pictures Scott,
Welcome aboard!

Username Protected · **Posted:** 17 Apr 2012, 21:19

Scott,

Great pics...and that you have even gone for a ride in those other planes :drool:

!!

Great to see that a guy who has contributed so much has the chance to fly such a nice personal plane!!! Welcome to the zany world of BT!

Best Regards,

Kevin McNamara

Username Protected · **Posted:** 17 Apr 2012, 21:38

Welcome to BT Scott!

Thanks for the pics! :thumbup:

Username Protected · **Posted:** 18 Apr 2012, 01:00

Welcome Scott! Glad you're no longer a lurker! Sweet looking plane. All these V-tail drivers here at BT are secretly jealous of us long-bodied A36 men. If Max says wife pix are in order you'd better obey orders, private!

Username Protected · **Posted:** 20 Apr 2012, 15:46

Could have put this post in so many other places .....like Executive override or three strikes and you are out but I will put it here.
Had a meeting to go to in Chicago today. With a big smile on my face put 110 gal of avgas in the Bo and planned a flight from KCEU to KDPA. The boss overheard me talking to a friend about the combination of IMC, turbulence and low freezing levels. Needles to say I am sitting my sorry but in the terminal at GSP waiting for our flight to Midway :sad:

My "boss" of 23 years barely likes to fly in good weather so this flight she would not have enjoyed at all. I thought of posting some pretty pictures of her as previously directed but I might post the look she gave me when I said "I will be pissed if this Southwest flight makes a smoking hole in the ground" :pullhair:

Seriously, I will NEVER purposely push a flight into dangerous weather.
it is probably good to go commercial today but the flight was probably ok to do but would have been a rough ride in IMC through most of the approach. I just wish I could get my wife to like flying general aviation more than she does now and worry less.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 20 Apr 2012, 16:12

Username Protected wrote:

I just wish I could get my wife to like flying general aviation more than she does now and worry less.

I hear you on that one. Hopefully not pushing her to fly through this nasty weather is a step in the right direction. :thumbup:

Username Protected · **Posted:** 20 Apr 2012, 16:16

Welcome Scott. Flown in and out of KDPA many times.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 20 Apr 2012, 18:49

Oh well, just got off the Southwest ATD. Layer was 015 to 050 on the approach. Possibly freezing the whole way down. You just never know- could pick up a great deal of ice in 30 seconds or blast through 4 minutes on the ILS with nothing. The commercial route was probably the best choice but damn I felt like flying today. :deadhorse:

Have a good weekend all
Scott

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