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.

wrote:

powered by PT6A turboprops...

Why do you want to ruin that aircraft? Give me the round engines.

George Patterson
Drink is the curse of the land. It makes you quarrel with your neighbor.
It makes you shoot at your landlord. And it makes you miss him.

("super90" wrote)
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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.


For some :-)

http://www.siliconbeat.com/entries/2005/09/09/my_jets_pretty_big_how_big_is_yours.html
"My jet's pretty big, how big is yours?"


Montblack

On 2005-10-31, super90 wrote:
Here is where things get interesting. My father has an A36 and I was
working towards flying that and I thought we were getting to where we
could see the "light at the end of the tunnel". He has about 2,500
hrs. and has just decided he wants to move up to a 58 Baron. I see
"the light" dimming and fading out.

I heard somewhere that you had to have something like 200 hours make and
model to even get considered for insurance in a Baron.
--
Doug Carter

I have trained 2 students who only required 30 hours in make and
model.

On Sun, 06 Nov 2005 03:08:16 GMT, Doug Carter
wrote:

On 2005-10-31, super90 wrote:
Here is where things get interesting. My father has an A36 and I was
working towards flying that and I thought we were getting to where we
could see the "light at the end of the tunnel". He has about 2,500
hrs. and has just decided he wants to move up to a 58 Baron. I see
"the light" dimming and fading out.

I heard somewhere that you had to have something like 200 hours make and
model to even get considered for insurance in a Baron.