I've been hanging out here for some time.... 196 is my "number". I do believe a pilot's license is a license to learn and BT has been a great site for that. Occasionally I can post something that I think will help another aviator but more frequently I've picked up great stuff from others on BT. Sharing our community knowledge and projects in a well organized and orchestrated forum is addicting. BT becomes part of one's everyday life.... when you're not flying you've got BT to satisfy your aviation addiction! Many, many thanks to the Jeff's for putting this site together and maintaining it to such high standards.

The best signal to noise ratio of any aviation site I've encountered. Between the moderators and the "regulars" it has been a wealth of polite discourse and information. I had Baron-Travelairitis for close to decade but finally settled on a C310F for my MEL adventures. I see that I am in good company in the brand-x category.

I am a cessna owner and have been on this site for a few years. It is the most informative and witty site for ga operation and travel. If you get bored, just make a post claiming twins are safer or something on shock cooling. That is good for 30 pages. Now that is an active site!
Thanks all.
Tim

Beechtalk has a sense of community that is lacking in the anonymous internet today. I joined here after finding a thread of interest (and "lurking" through google cache for some time), not knowing what to expect. Like many other aviation forums, I expected to be an outsider because I use another "lesser" brand of products, and was surprised to find that I wasn't treated this way. Over the years I have watched this site transform from a type club to a general group of passionate aviators with a strong sense of community, making the Beechcraft/type-club connection even more distant. While it still is important, it is less so today. The fact this ended up in "Brand X talk" is a further attestment to this...

I have also found this site attracted a more educated, civil, and mature audience. People here actually behaved like they would in real life, which was notable absent on a few other all-things-aviation internet forums. It didn't hurt that we used real identities before doing so was cool on the internet.

Ultimately, it's you and everyone else that makes this a great site.