I've been reading through a lot of the introductions and posts and felt a bit out of place. For good reason, I'm surrounded by pilots and yes, i have to say it, I'm a techie. i'm also new in the Beechcraft world as I have been working maily on Boeing aircraft. I have to admit that at the start of my career in 1996 I wanted to fly and thought I'd get around to it. More than a decade later, I haven't yet. I think I shall put this at the top of my bucket list, and learn to fly. I'm a bit apprehensive though, I get the feeling I'd be thinking about all the mechanical stuff going on. But, I do enjoy flying, rather, being flown around.

I'm managing the maintenance of two Hawker Beechcraft that do about 350 hours a year, so I thought if I got into some Beechtalk, I'd learn a bit about the Beechcraft.

I hope I'll be welcome and maybe motivated to fly soon.

Hi, Trish.

Even Trekies are welcome here, so . . .

Welcome to Beechtalk.

It's never too late to start your flying lessons. Dive in!

Truth be known there probably as many iPads on this forum as there are Bonanzas. Pilots, as a rule, like gadgets and we like knowing how they work. Welcome to BT. You're never too old to start learning and never to good to stop.

Welcome Trish! I'm sure we can all learn a thing or two from you...

Hi Trish, glad to have you here, welcome!

Hello Trisch!

Welcome.

Perhaps you presence, along with the other ladies of Beechtalk will help soften our collective demeanor.

Trish,

Welcome. To gie you an idea age does not matter starting. We have a gentleman on this board (I forget his name) his is almots 70 and is now going for his IR rating and got his pilot license just a few years ago!

Enjoy, and chase the dream. You will never regret it.

Tim

Welcome to BT. We need pictures of your maintenance babies!

Don't give up on your interest in flying. Let me make a short story long:

I wanted to fly since I was a kid. I couldn't mow enough yards, though I did manage to get a demo ride at the airport. A pal and I started building a Volksplane from plans you could buy out of Popular Mechanics. We had plywood and a wrecked VW, what more would you need? Fortunately I left for college before we got very far with that thing or I probably wouldn't be here today (at that age we knew, of course, that we already knew how to fly and so would have).

Along the way it was either "I didn't have the money" or "I didn't have the time".

My kids and I talked about it occasionally, and when my oldest had finished her first year of college (doing REAL well along the way) she asked about flying lessons in the summer. Neither of us knew exactly what it took, so we went to the airport and talked to the old timer who ran the FBO. What does it take? Straight from Yoda's mouth:

"Well, you come take a lesson. If you like that, then you come take another one.".

So, she started her flight lessons. The next week I'm sitting in my office working. The sky is crystal clear. My daugther is up taking a flying lesson. I'm thinking "What's wrong with this picture!!!". So I started the next week. I was 47 at the time.

I (re)learned another of life's lessons during that: Sometimes you just have to MAKE time for certain things.

Dan

Welcome to BeechTalk!