I've gotta be honest, flying a float plane in the back country of Alaska has been a dream of mine since I was about 11 years old. I live in Australia, and fly little Jab's, but when I have a bad day, or just really any general thoughts on flying come for me, it's that dream that puts me back in the mindset of just being in awe of flight.
During time counter 2:20 to 2:27 I was demonstrating what happens when you use excessive back-pressure on the stick or yoke. It drags the rear ( after-bodies) of the floats and induces lots of drag. You can see the little pressure waves popping off behind the floats. Chris and I used used a 1977 C-172N with a 160hpo engine, Horton stol and Power Flow exhaust system. She sits on PK-2300 floats.
YMML SpottingTeam Plus Chris just about froze his feet that morning. He had to wade out in water that was over his hip-boot tops and set up a high tripod in the water so the camera would be above the lake surface. While the video may only be a couple minutes long, he was in the water for a fairly long time. Then he had to fly with wet numb feet.
Mirandorl Look at timer counter 1:50 through about time counter 1:57. I was simulating a common problem experienced while landing in a curved path with a high sink rate. You can see how the plane skips a little sideways upon contact with the water and the floats then shake back and forth for a second or two as I straighten it out. This is caused by still having some side drift upon contact with the water. Plus that was a fairly good sink rate over some trees leading up to the landing itself. If you do not know how to catch that, you can catch a float and flip your plane. The water was very smooth that morning... So wind was not a factor.
I've gotta be honest, flying a float plane in the back country of Alaska has been a dream of mine since I was about 11 years old. I live in Australia, and fly little Jab's, but when I have a bad day, or just really any general thoughts on flying come for me, it's that dream that puts me back in the mindset of just being in awe of flight.
Make the dream come true, man! You can do it!
During time counter 2:20 to 2:27 I was demonstrating what happens when you use excessive back-pressure on the stick or yoke. It drags the rear ( after-bodies) of the floats and induces lots of drag. You can see the little pressure waves popping off behind the floats. Chris and I used used a 1977 C-172N with a 160hpo engine, Horton stol and Power Flow exhaust system. She sits on PK-2300 floats.
Amazing!! The experience of flying a floatplane has been captured perfectly!!
YMML SpottingTeam Plus Chris just about froze his feet that morning. He had to wade out in water that was over his hip-boot tops and set up a high tripod in the water so the camera would be above the lake surface. While the video may only be a couple minutes long, he was in the water for a fairly long time. Then he had to fly with wet numb feet.
Beautiful airplane, beautiful scenery
Whats "side skip"? Google is just showing me weird dance moves. What caused the drift? The wind?
Mirandorl Look at timer counter 1:50 through about time counter 1:57. I was simulating a common problem experienced while landing in a curved path with a high sink rate. You can see how the plane skips a little sideways upon contact with the water and the floats then shake back and forth for a second or two as I straighten it out. This is caused by still having some side drift upon contact with the water. Plus that was a fairly good sink rate over some trees leading up to the landing itself. If you do not know how to catch that, you can catch a float and flip your plane. The water was very smooth that morning... So wind was not a factor.
MrFloatPilot Wonderful explanation thank you, I can really see that in the video. It looked like you had a great time out there.
Beautiful
I miss the float plane.