Thank you Tom for the welcome...I have a Nikon D300 and I'm quite happy with it. I also have the Epson R1800 printer and it's amazing to me what you can at home with photos now days! Also happy to see a wrench user out there!

Regards,
John

Hello All:
I am a low time pilot at 68 hours and 2 hours of solo time away from my check ride. I have booked 24 hours in the left seat of our 2001 A36 Bonanza. Following my private, I plan on my instrument rating. I am fortunate to be able to fly with a CFII when traveling for business.

Aviation has been a life time dream and I have loved every minute of my time. I gave up my passion for golf--low handicap--to learn the skills of flying. Obviously, learning will always be part of flying. Golf can wait for a while.

I live in Columbia SC and own a commercial construction business. We operate throughout the southeast. I have a great wife of 20 years and 2 wonderful children.

I appreciate all the post as it is a great way to learn. There is so much experience in this forum. Thanks to all.

Go Gators!

Allen Amsler
KCUB

Greetings & Welcome Allen...I just joined here too and it's a very friendly place with lots information to share. Columbia SC is a beautiful city and I was fortunate to stay there for the Master's last year. My wife and I had been in the lottery for practice round tickets for nine years without any luck...last year her name was drawn and this year my name was drawn so we'll be back again this spring! I can't wait!

Regards,
John

Hi, Living in Lewistown Mt, have been flying since 1978, training 150 cessna, cessna 172, piper RG180 arrow, cessna 182, and bought 1975 A36 in 1998 have been enjoying all 1500 hrs in this great flying machine. Practice Dentistry in Lewistown and have a son at University of Mich. Dental School I really enjoy reading all the posts from you guys, what a great forum also enjoy bowhunting and bird hunting with Sage, my English setter. Hey just harvested a whitetail, small buck under tree stand, used longbow wooden arrow come to Mt has great flying weather. All the Best, Tom 4498S

Welcome Thomas... what a beautiful dog and plane you have!

Thomas,

Welcome.

A most unusual and beautiful coloration on the English Setter, Sage.

What an antique you are !! : A longbow and a side by side shotgun.

Did you know the modern toothbrush was invented in Tennessee? Anywhere else it would have been called a teethbrush!

Thanks Jeff its a tri color Raymin hemlock breeding great nose and hunting pal tried to post a picture of A36 but having problems will try later. Thanks, it sure is fun following your posts on your buying decision, I know how you feel flying the A36 Tom

Max, thanks for the kind words enjoy doing it the hard way, have hunted African Plains game, alaska and Russia, but A36 is always being improved with modern avionics and best maintance I can get, enjoyed seeing all you pics. Tom (Did you know you can train your dog to use an electric tooth brush, even use whiting trays for ever other tooth for Halloween

Hi all,

I’ve been lurking around for a while, so it is only proper to introduce myself for those I have not had the pleasure to already meet in person or on the internet.

My name is Leldon Locke and I have been flying a Beechcraft since buying my first airplane, a 35-C33 Debonair in 1987. Before that it was renting the typical brand C or P, since then I have logged about 2300 hrs in 33’s/35’s/36’s and have a little B-55 and T-34 time.

My little “deb” is still part of the family as a restoration “project”… but taking much tooo long… aka a hangar queen…Currently I’m flying a stretch deb… we call her “Sierra”.

We keep the airplanes on our own turf strip (TA93) just a few miles west of Sherman, Tx.

My wife and I really enjoy using the deb’s for x-country transportation and we’ve been over a great deal of the USA and Canada. The high points have been a couple of self guided trips to Alaska and one to the tundra of the NW territories, but we’ve been most everywhere west of the Mississippi River by beech. Mary jokes that we can’t go east.

The last few years, we’ve been busy doing formation flying with the B2OSH crowd and airshows with Texas V-tails.

The day job is a practicing small animal veterinarian.

This time of year… the planes are called on to make multiple trips to SW Kansas to chase wild ring neck pheasants with my dogs.

Flying my deb, working the dogs, and outdoor activities…. It just doesn’t get any better. J

Leldon,

Welcome to BeechTalk. I really liked you until I read the part about the private strip

Jeff

Welcome to our two newest pilots/hunters.

I'm checking in from Ringneck Ranch, just south of Tipton, Kansas. We had a great day yesterday. I used the over/under in the morning, and the side-by-side (Grulla) in the afternoon.

We'll do it again today, and might be able to sneak in a prairie chicken hunt this evening.

It sure is great to be able to haul your ammo and guns in the Bonanza and not having anyone poking around in your stuff.

And . . . an invitation to any Beech Talkers who like hunting, guns or shooting, to view the videos we have shot and posted (about 500 now) at http://www.guntalk.tv. Just click on the "Watch Now" button up top to fire up the player.

Well, gotta go. Big family style breakfast in an hour, then it's off to the field. Oh, you can land your Bonanza on the very nice grass strip here and taxi up to your room!

http://www.ringneckranch.net/

Keith, the owner, flies for American Airlines, and he keeps his Cessna 182 in the hangar behind the room I'm in right now.

Leldon

Great to see you finally taking the plunge and going public over here!

We missed you at Bridgeport a couple of weekends ago, but hope you scored big in the pheasant hunt. Fuel's down to $2.81/gal according to Mike.

Now guys, I must add, that Leldon has a special mod on N6073S that is readily visible in the attached picture. Can you spot it?

Leldon studied fluid flow in an aerodynamic wind field and came up with a mod to increase speed by lubrication of the aircraft exterior while in flight, while simultaneously increasing passenger comfort in the cabin. Did NASA call on that one Leldon???

Dang it Don....

I was hoping to keep a low profile on this list...incognito... not come out of the closet...keep folks a guessing.

Now ya done went and blown my cover.

Naw Leldon, nobody's guessed it yet. I'll keep quite for a while.

Hi Don-

In all fairness, it should be pointed out that it helps to view the photo full size to see Leldon's speed mod.

Regards,

Bob