I used 3190's for 7 years on a C-185 in a commercial operation. I didn't notice any tendency for 'digging'. They were really stable in crosswinds and bigger lake water, where I felt that the CAP float would wander and not stay as straight on take-off. I much preferred the flat tops for loading and m...

Colonel Sanders wrote:What would you do to this guy?

Buy him a beer.

Job well done.

Comments are a little embarrassing to read. Scooping isn't that much different from landing on a runway... so how much width do you think you need? As for flying experience, I'd be surprised if most crews didn't have 30 years, and 15000 hours between them. Props.

Very few people land gear up on a perfectly normal landing (anyone who does is stupid I guess). Normally, it happens when something changes or was out of the ordinary. If something disrupts your thought process precisely when you are doing your gear check, for example, your brain can skip over it t...

Monthly base, plus daily rate for any day on schedule. Rotation 2 weeks on/2 off.

Nica is shutdown.

ArGo is shutdown.

HA Malta is shutdown (temporarily?).

Fiji, Dubai and Indonesia are as described above.

Peace

Yes, it is designed to be used when on floats as well as wheels.

A real advantage to the belly tank is that the refueling is all at the same area... especially handy with aircraft on floats. Tip tanks can be quite a pain, as you have to turn the airplane around at the dock.

J1

Watching a Twin Otter taxi onto an 11000' runway, and backtrack 300' to start from the numbers.

I phoned, and then emailed my request to a TC office, and they emailed me a Verification Letter within a few hours. (Kudos to the Abbotsford office.)

FYI, Email copy was fine in one country, but another country (UAE) needed the original letter.

J1

Anyone know of a doctor or office that is qualified to perform both the US and Canadian Aviation medicals, somewhere around Vancouver?

Cheers,
J1

What kind of range do you have?

You don't necessarily need to go to a flight school or an instructor. There are plenty of experienced float pilots who would be happy to earn a few bucks showing what they know. Ask around and find someone with the right experience and attitude, and go flying.

Not often that you can put the airplane down on both sets of numbers...

It's just getting harder to get those overseas jobs...

Here's the Australian view!

http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/keep-t ... 1533759244

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhL2vFFvCP8

Use it to learn from, it could happen to anyone.

It's very unfortunate, but shows it could happen to anyone. The big difference between comparing a landplane landing mistake and an amphib is that the landplane ALWAYS lands gear DOWN, where the amphib sometimes lands gear down (land) and sometimes gear up (water). Considering pilot workload includi...

Me thinks this has more to do with showing off for the camera.... And it worked, in a sense.

Saw you in 'Flight of the Felix'. Nice work.

Hope to catch you in person some day.

I would go with either another Beaver, or get an Otter (turbine). Fact is that you don't want to be in any big water with anything at max weight. Better to plan to be well undergross in those situations. Also, once you're on the water with a flyingboat, getting the pax in/out is complicated. Beachin...

I appreciated seeing this question asked. Unfortunate that so many have to chime in with the negative.