Longest takeoff you`ll ever see.

rookiepilot · Post by **rookiepilot** » Thu Sep 01, 2022 1:03 pm

Love this video. Lotta room needed. Beautiful aircraft.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3MrKt1yh3E

Just another canuck · Post by **Just another canuck** » Thu Sep 01, 2022 3:13 pm

That wasn't that bad. If she'll float, she'll fly.

Disclaimer. I do not support the above message.

J31 · Post by **J31** » Thu Sep 01, 2022 3:56 pm

That is a short water run for the Norseman!

Big Pistons Forever · Post by **Big Pistons Forever** » Thu Sep 01, 2022 4:08 pm

Flying a Norseman ought to allow you to count the time on the water towards your 60 Ton Captains ticket

Seriously though I bet those poor cylinders were pretty toasty before it finally got off the water

mmm..bacon · Post by **mmm..bacon** » Thu Sep 01, 2022 7:28 pm

And *that*, Ladies and Gentlemen, is why the DHC-3 Otter was invented!

Incidentally, it's also proof of the curvature of the Earth!

goldeneagle · Post by **goldeneagle** » Thu Sep 01, 2022 8:04 pm

mmm..bacon wrote: ↑Thu Sep 01, 2022 7:28 pm Incidentally, it's also proof of the curvature of the Earth!

Going eastbound on the slide helps to, you know, rotation of the earth and all that....

Squaretail · Post by **Squaretail** » Thu Sep 01, 2022 9:13 pm

Feels like he could have got on the step earlier. Maybe just me.

pelmet · Post by **pelmet** » Fri Sep 02, 2022 5:33 am

I think my first flight in a172 for my float rating many years ago was longer. Kept on going. Fortunately, it was a river. Have never seen anything close to that again since I started flying floats again, not not sure why it was so significant.

I think it was glassy and instructor mumbled something about a bit of a tailwind, but there were only two of us. Maybe he had a low power engine.

rigpiggy · Post by **rigpiggy** » Tue Sep 06, 2022 6:43 am

Had a pacer on floats, the mechanics did a bang up job on the annual(not) the tubes attached to the float pumpouts were detached. Had about 80 gallons of water in the floats. Took off in am from Charlie lake(yxj) used most of the lake, had to fly to peace river in ground effect in the river valley due to oil temp. Gave the mechanics shit when I got back. " Well it's hard to do a proper annual on floats" iow all of our annuals on floats are crap.....

TeePeeCreeper · Post by **TeePeeCreeper** » Tue Sep 06, 2022 4:18 pm

rigpiggy wrote: ↑Tue Sep 06, 2022 6:43 am Had a pacer on floats, the mechanics did a bang up job on the annual(not) the tubes attached to the float pumpouts were detached. Had about 80 gallons of water in the floats. Took off in am from Charlie lake(yxj) used most of the lake, had to fly to peace river in ground effect in the river valley due to oil temp. Gave the mechanics shit when I got back. " Well it's hard to do a proper annual on floats" iow all of our annuals on floats are crap.....

Sadly, I have you beat.

Picked up my 180 years back after its annual which included re skinning the floats. Took off, landed at home base tied her to the dock. Get a call the next morning from my partner on the aircraft and man oh man was he mad!

Took his wife that morning to see our plane and found it hanging off the dock and the other float completely sunk!

That was an annual/float repair bill that was challenged!

TPC

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