Greetings all,

I've been lurking here since July '08, but now that my friend and new Debonair owner Eric has introduced himself it's time that I stopped living in the background!!

I'm a 3,200 + hour pilot, commerical with SE, ME, and instrument ratings, and a Gold-Seal CFI with teaching privileges for single and multi engine airplanes, and instrument instruction, with 2,100+ hours of dual given. I obtained my PPL in 1988. Aviation has been in my family for a long time...dad got his PPL in 1961 and stopped flying in 2004 as PIC due to a heart issue that sadly prevents him from being certified. We fly together whenever we can. While my grandfather never learned to fly, he was an early adopter of commerical flight for business travel, having started doing so in the DC 3 era...he was a United Airlines million-miler club member before jets.

I've owned a Mooney M20B, a Piper PA30C Turbo Twin Comanche, and have flown a variety of Beechcraft airplanes either as rentals or giving dual to owners: B33, C33 and C33A, V35B, A36 and B36TC. Until two years ago I had an A36 available to rent and flew it with my family all over the place until the owner decided to sell it. Since then I've been flying a nice 2001 C182. I learned to fly in Southern California at Long Beach (KLGB) and have been flying and instructing both there and at my home base, John Wayne Airport (KSNA) every since.

For a living I'm a studio musician here in the LA basin, performing on all the members of the saxophone, flute, clarinet and oboe families of instruments, and I teach saxophone part-time at the Cole Conservatory of Music at CSU, Long Beach. I am married to a wonderful woman who loves to travel by GA (!!), and we have a son in high school and a daughter in third grade, who also enjoy airplanes.

I miss the A36 and am looking forward to being able to own a Bonanza or Baron ASAP...I'd really like to get a 58P someday. This is a great site and the information has been invaluable...I learn something everytime I sign on.

Jay Mason

Welcome Jay. It's nice to add another highly experienced pilot to the ranks of BT.

Jay, first of all welcome .

Secondly, we usually (as you well know) bust chops for pictures, but in your case I think we should amend that and insist that you post some songs for the Beech collective. I love a good sax solo

Welcome! Cool intro.