Jeff,

Welcome to the world of flying. Our University is close to obtaining a Baron 58P (325) as a donation and it will be great to get in an aircraft of this quality. It is in outstanding condition and is fully loaded! I have been in aviation since 1963 as a teenager and have been flying ever since.

How do you like the Diamond products? We have 19 DA20 C-1's, 6 DA40's and 5 DA42's. We have had great success with Diamond and worked with them during their initial entry into fixed wing aircraft. I believe the DA20 is the best initial trainer on the market today and I have owned a flight school and FBO myself and I am partial to Cessna's because our family lived in the Northwest for so long. It is a great weather aircraft because it has two big umbrellas on each side of the cabin.

I will be posting more on this site as the days go by once we see the aircraft in our inventory.

Steve

Hi, Steve. Welcome to Beechtalk.

What university?

Hi Paul,

I am definitely not an A&P! Just a fellow aviator and soon-to-be Certified Flight Instructor. It's a pleasure to meet you.

Adam

Tony,

Very nice plane.. has to be close to one of the last ones made. Assume you're going to continue your training for an IR when you get the PP?

You'll have fun....

Forgot to mention that we ran into Steve Miles new bird at Paul's as well. Nice looking A36 for Steve congrats.

Tom,

Not Steve, but I know we are an impatient lot.

Utah Valley University - UVU

Formerly known as UVSC and before that UVCC and before that "The Tech".

Main campus is in Orem, Utah and the flight program is based out of the Provo, Utah airport KPVU. Good aviation program, I learned to fly through these guys.

-MO

Thanks, Mark.

I bet you learned about density altitude when training there.

Tom, oh yes! Summers are hot and the air is thin here.

I really learned about density altitude when I bought my first airplane, a Beech Sport. You see, my dad was a Beechcraft man so I just knew I would make him proud by buying a Beech ... well...

That airplane really belongs on the coast somewhere breathing soupy air.

My dad still hassles me that I still don't own a REAL Bonanza because I have too many surfaces on the tail. He currently has a real nice original polished '47 that he bases on his airport/farm/ranch. We ought to have a Beech fly-in there sometime - it is in South Central Missouri.

Anyhow, someday, I will have a REAL Bonanza.

-MO

Mark

Got any pictures of the polished Bo??

Hello everyone,

I have been monitoring BT for several months and posting a few replies the last several weeks. Please accept my apology for not introducing myself and my plane until now. I spent a lot of time just reading all the past postings and wondering why it took so long for me to find out about BT.

I'm a ABS life member, a AOPA 40yr. member and a 2yr. EAA member. I've been flying for 44yrs., not commercially or militarily but for business and personal reasons. (ASEL, AMEL, COMM, INST) Its been my good fortune and pleasure to have spent 36 of those years behind two Bonanzas ('69 V35A & '74 V35B) and one Baron ('77 E55). I been based at Detroit Metro (KDTW) for 36 yrs. and at Ft. Myers Page Field (KFMY) for 9yrs. I hope the attachments go through. Being a little unfamiliar with all the "How To's" I hope I got it right.

N926BT and I have been together for almost 32yrs. I picked her up at the factory in late 1977. Please don't pick on me for the panel. I'm sorry! With 4800 hrs behind those "steam gauges", I just can't part with them

Welcome, grat to have you aboard...

Bill,

Glad you found BT as well, I am sure that with your experience and years of ownership and flying, there is much we can learn from you. Thanks for speaking up.

Great pictures, what a feeling must be yours to have known your Baron since it rolled out the doors of the factory - I can only imagine. Thanks again, we look forward to getting to know you much better. You have nothing to be ashamed of in that panel.



Here is one, I was able to dig up on the day we delivered her to the farm in Missouri - fun flight, bad first landing.

-MO

Welcome Bill. 32yrs that's like a marriage. Nice bird. In my book if it fly's good and does your mission then so be it. Curious tho? Would you care to tell us about the experience of going to the factory and picking up your new girl, 32 years ago?

Cheers Don

Bill, welcome and what a deal to have owned that E model since new!! Don't apologize for your panel, it looks great. Besides, "panels" are highly overrated, to me. People can spend unbelievable amounts of cash on the newest and greatest and the older stuff navigates, flies, and does just great. My 43 yr. old plane does all I want. Oldish panel, too. I'll probably get lost on my next flight, lacking even a simple GPS.

Landing in Ocean Reef 2008