What club you joining? I looked a little into that one at Montgomery field, looked like they had decent rates and good selection of a/c
I haven't done much light civilian flying since I started flight school, but I did fly a bit in my dad's bonanza last time I went home on leave. It took some getting used to in terms of performance, etc. The thing turned like a mack truck, and I had to lead rollouts a lot more than I was used to....that and you can't just crank it over to 70 AOB and maintain altitude and airspeed in any comfortable manner. I actually found approaches and pattern work to be less difficult than I had expected, though flaring again was weird (bounced down the runway a few times before I got it planted). In something smaller like a Cessna, I'm sure you could expect it to be a lot more squirrely. Also, most civilians fly a standard box pattern, so it helps to be predictable and not fly a carrier pattern and annoy everyone. I guess just not getting complacent thinking it is just a little airplane, and being especially watchful in and around airports for other traffic....stuff we do anyway, but at those little uncontrolled fields, things can get pretty sporty at times.....kind of like busy days at Meridian, but without the tower controller....though they were actually an SA suck some of the time anyway.
