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There’s a Reason the Beachcraft Bonanza is called “The Fork Tailed Doctor Killer”.

Yes, I have heard that nickname as well. To be kind... Beachcraft have traditionally been the Cadillacs of General Aviation aircraft, where Mooney's are more like the sports cars.

We live on a small airport...he neighbor two doors down has a Bonanza that he never flies, because he has gotten too old to handle it. Our next-door neighbor has a tricked out Mooney, with a powerful engine and speed brakes. We have obstructions, he has to do a dog leg and skim the trees to get it on the ground half way down the runway. When he had a Warrior, he flew it all the time. But the one time I went flying with him he was white knuckling the Mooney and he hardly ever takes it out after spending over $200,000 on it.

I've never been in a Mooney. Got to fly a Bonanza once as a kid with just a few solo hours in a 152. It felt disconcerting to me, like a light car on ice that had a barely perceptible fishtail. The owner said you got used to it. Other than that it didn't seem tricky. Of course I wasn't doing mucb beyond straight and level. Incidentally, my FBO was Monmouth Illinois. It's the oldest airport in the state. John Livingston ran it for years and my grandfather flew with him a few times. I have a picture of him by a plane that I think was owned by Livingston. It appears to be a Waco with a Hispano Suisa V8. Galesburg, 12 miles away, has the biggest Stearman fly in in the world.