BeechTalk - BT

Username Protected · **Posted:** 09 Mar 2009, 22:06

Hi All,

Just found this site, and have been flying Bonanzas for 20 years. I go through the twin versus single ownership exercise about once a year! Love the economics of the Bonanza, and it seems to work well for most of my missions,. I am running out of room for options on the panel, but have found that it is still pretty easy to find new toys!

Equipment includes:
Century III Autopilot
WX 900 Stormscope
Ryan 9900BX TCAD Coupled to 530/430
JPI EDM 700 Graphic Engine Monitor with Fuel Flow Coupled to 530.
Garmin 530W/430W
GDL 69A with XM
Garmin 396
TKS De Icing System (Non FIKI)
Electric Standby Horizon
Dual Glideslopes and Indicators
GAMI's
Lopresti Boom Beam Intermediate Lense w/Pulselight
Electronic CO detector
3/8" windshield
Hartzell 3 Blade Scimitar Prop
Tanis Engine Heater
Slimline Tail Strobe
Mini Belly Strobe
Rosen 3 Axis Sun Visors

Scott Wakeman
N996V
WST & LEB

Username Protected · **Posted:** 09 Mar 2009, 22:25

Welcome Scott! Let me be the first to say, you have excellent taste!

Jeff

Username Protected · **Posted:** 09 Mar 2009, 22:51

Hi Scott,

good to see you on Beechtalk. Nice plane! Your girlfriend showed me pictures of your plane on Friday on the Acela

. Say 'hello' to her ...

Christian

Username Protected · **Posted:** 09 Mar 2009, 23:41

Scott, Welcome - Great looking plane. But really you should run!

Forget you ever found this place or just submit now and realize this is going to take a LOT of your surfing time.

"Resistance is Futile"

-MO

Username Protected · **Posted:** 10 Mar 2009, 00:07

Beautiful Bo.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 10 Mar 2009, 11:53

Username Protected wrote:

Hi All,

Just found this site, and have been flying Bonanzas for 20 years. I go through the twin versus single ownership exercise about once a year! Love the economics of the Bonanza, and it seems to work well for most of my missions,. I am running out of room for options on the panel, but have found that it is still pretty easy to find new toys!

Scott Wakeman
N996V
WST & LEB

Welcome Scott,

Your plane is about as good as it gets.... You can argue a twin, but will probably have less panel space. The Baron will give you better loading flexibility and the nose baggage is nice, but your operating costs will go up. Could argue that one forever......

What's in your panel, and what are you adding, or thinking about adding?

Username Protected · **Posted:** 10 Mar 2009, 13:09

Quote:

I am running out of room for options on the panel, but have found that it is still pretty easy to find new toys!

You have an unusual array of antennae on the plane. Post pics of the panel so we can figure out their purpose.

A very nice plane.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 13 Mar 2009, 00:46

Hi All,

Great site guys! We live in Orinda CA (about 10 miles east of San Francisco), keeping our V35A hangered at Buchanan Field (CCR) located in Concord, CA. Beautiful wife Susie, :pullhair:

, and two wonderful kids (Kyle 8 & Kaylie 10).

I've spent the last 25 years managing sales and operations in the building material industry. Three years ago, Susie and I formed a small lumber company which specializes in the distribution of sustainable wood products.

One of our most talked family vacation was our trip to OSH in 2007. We camped at the North 40 and met a lot of nice people. This past year, we flew to the San Juan Islands (NE Washington) - a must see if you haven't gone. This year, I'll be returning to the backcountry strips of Idaho along with a friend of mine and our two boys.

I look forward to learning more about our planes and getting to know my fellow aviators. If anyone is ever flying out this way, please look me up.

John Parr

Username Protected · **Posted:** 13 Mar 2009, 01:13

Hi John, beautiful family and beautiful Bo - welcome. I'm hangared in San Carlos. Check out the fly-in at San Luis Obispo on April 4th - hope you can join us.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 13 Mar 2009, 01:59

Hello John, and welcome.

AirVenture 2007 >>>>I thought I had seen that good looking plane before:

Username Protected · **Posted:** 13 Mar 2009, 08:17

Username Protected wrote:

Hello John, and welcome.

AirVenture 2007 >>>>I thought I had seen that good looking plane before:

A'ight Max, that's just scary. :bugeye:

You gotta photographic bonanza memory!

Username Protected · **Posted:** 13 Mar 2009, 10:41

Thanks guys - Max, what a memory!

Another 8 degree of separation moment was that I met Don Lawrenz on the ramp at yellowstone and asked him if he would mind snapping our picture - it's one of our favorites. Don's avatar was taken by my wife Susie as Don was taxing - what a small world! Don did a good job promoting BT during our quick introduction - unfortunately, I failed to write down the site name at the time and came accross the site on a google search almost 2 years later - low and behold, there's Don!

Alejandro - I'm already signed up. Looking forward to the fly-in.

John

Username Protected · **Posted:** 13 Mar 2009, 12:19

Guys let me tell you John and Susie know how to pack a plane! What their picture doesn't show is the rest of the stuff that they were able to pack, along with their kids, into their Bo. Talk about safety of flight, there must have been no hard surface exposed in that cockpit, everything was padded with camping gear!

The rest of the story is that we actually first met in the chow line, in the rain, at one of the B2OSH functions at Oshkosh a couple of days previously. Super nice folks and very polite kids. Didn't really think I'd see them again, but a few days later, and a couple of thousand miles West, we meet again. Thirty minutes plus or minus on either end and it would not have happened. One of those many small coincidences that make life so rewarding. This is another example of the type of things that happen at Oshkosh. I've only been once, but met a lot of very nice people who all share our common love for things Beechcraft. I'll go back for sure. Heck, I probably even met Max on that trip!

Here are a couple of more photo's that Susie took that morning at Yellowstone. She's good!

Username Protected · **Posted:** 13 Mar 2009, 14:17

Howdy! I fly a '08 -58, that really spoils me. I graduated from OSU last May. While there, I worked line service in Tulsa, eventually flying a hunk of aluminum from Brand P. (I still have nightmares) We took delivery of our Baron in October and have been flying the wings off ever since. When we don't fly I do some accounting, IT and AutoCAD work for our company. Sorry for the low resolution of the photo, I'll have some more when it gets to be warm outside...