Yeah Bonanzas are sweet birds, although the new ones are
amazingly expensive. I get what you are saying about the kinds
of pilots though Kegger, sounds like you have your head
screwed on straight though
I remember a couple of years ago, I was out fueling in the
west tie down of MMU when I saw a V-tail attempting to taxi
out. He kept pouring on the power, but the aircraft wouldn't
move. Three times I saw the nosewheel come well off the
ground! He finally gets out to see what's wrong and notices
that his tail tiedown is still on, but by this time he's yanked it so
tight he had to cut the rope to free the aircraft.
Can't remember the guy's name, but the tail number was
N88AA and it ended up in a field somewhere after starving out
of fuel.
Watched a Yankee taxiing out with a cinderblock bouncing
merrily from the tail once, and this guy was a senior American
Airlines pilot with a part 141 flight school, so I guess everyone
has their bad days
