Moving up to a Baron

Originally Posted by Doug

For the ultimate in one-upmanship and cool. Get a Beech 18 ON FLOATS!!

He already has a tailwheel endorsement, of course. He got it to flying tow planes ages ago.

As for the Beech 18, we both love that airplane and even talk about how great it would be to have that old twin with the big radials on it.

I would be all for getting a multi seaplane rating !

So many airplanes, so little time and money.

Where I am one up on him is in running panel mounted GPS systems. I can run a KLN94 and load a flight plan with the DP and STAR so fast he doesn't even know what happened. That's one thing that will be in the next airplane; a Garmin 530 with all the bells and whistles. We'll both have to get up to speed on that.

I got started on the Commercial rating this week. Won't take too long to finish it off. After having taking the instrument written recently, studying for the commercial written seems to be going pretty fast.

Thanks,

R.