[t6dpilot]

Yeah, she is loud inside, but not toooo bad. It would help with the Bose headsets though. I find that the DC's are just fine even for long trips. The video may sound louder than normal because my father is shooting it and the vent window on his side was open a crack, so you can hear a lot of wind noise.

Yes that is a Beech 18 - 1957 model G with an H cockpit roof. The H roof is higher and gives more head room. Dual gauges for anything relating to the motors. If you look closely at the panel, you will see two tachos. To keep them sync'd there is a small wheel in one that spins left and right. Spinning to the right means the right engine revs are a little higher, so pull the prop lever back a hair. If you do not do this then the motors are out of sync and make a ton of annoying noise.

The great thing about the twin Beech is that is does have lots of levers and gauges to play with. Throttle, mixture, prop, manifold heat, oil cooler shutters, cowl flaps, oil bypass, ect., ect. Fun stuff. You do see some modern stuff in there (IFR Garmin 430) as this bird is equipped to fly in almost any weather including known icing. She is pretty much relegated to the same duty as most of our (Pelicans') Porsches - pleasure flying in nice weather.