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Author:  loftus [ Mon Jun 15, 2015 2:14 pm ]
Post subject:  Excitement builds for Floats Cert
Larry and I are doing our Floats Rating at Brown's Seaplane Base this Friday and Saturday. Very excited about it. I got an hour and a half in a 152 with an instructor yesterday just to get back on track flying the fixed wing. After a few touch and goes I was greasing them in pretty well even with the 6-8 direct crosswind. I forgot how easy the 152 is to fly, pretty much flies on trim. Flying the J-3 cub should be OK.
Hope after I get back I can seriously begin planning the floats on the Tangerine Scream or maybe another gyro - I see a floats build thread in my future.
Author:  elwood [ Mon Jun 15, 2015 3:04 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Excitement builds for Floats Cert
That would be cool, then you could island hop.
Author:  loftus [ Mon Jun 15, 2015 5:06 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Excitement builds for Floats Cert
elwood wrote:
That would be cool, then you could island hop.


:like :plike :like :plike :like :plike
Author:  farmer jim [ Mon Jun 15, 2015 9:01 pm ]
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Sounds like you're going to end up with a FAR SUPERIOR aircraft ?!!!!!! :first

THF'r

fj
Author:  MadMuz [ Mon Jun 15, 2015 9:11 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Excitement builds for Floats Cert
Yeah, floats are great I have always entertained that idea, where I am located, that makes sense because then, the waterways become your runways :laughing And the best thing about a gyro with floats, there is seldom any worry of crosswind :noidea :pop

Well done Jeff :like :koolaid :Wolvie
Author:  loftus [ Sun Jun 21, 2015 7:39 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Excitement builds for Floats Cert
Larry and I had a great couple of days in Winter Haven doing the floats thing. It was really a pretty intense two days, and really great fun. I think I am hooked. Larry finished up his Sport Rating, but I was way too whacked out after 6.5 hours of instruction flying in 2 days to take my check ride. I decided to do the rating as a full PPL and get my fixed wing current at the same time. So I am going back for another hour or so next weekend and maybe the check ride if they can fit it in. Not really in a rush because I don't really need the rating anytime soon and one can only rent these things with an instructor anyway because of insurance. I plan to try go out there pretty regularly to keep on top of it.
Brown's Seaplane Base is right at the end of the Winter Haven runway so I can even fly there in the gyro to get some time. Pretty awesome setup they have.
My instructor Ben was pretty cool - he has phocomelia with almost no arm on the left and not much more on the right. He's a commercial pilot and can pretty much do anything with the handicap he has, pretty awesome.
The J-3 Cub is a sweet little airplane, about as simple as they come.
Author:  Gabor [ Sun Jun 21, 2015 8:15 am ]
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That is way too cool. I want to have your babies.
Or Larry's for that matter.
:ultragay
Author:  DasStuka [ Sun Jun 21, 2015 10:22 am ]
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MadMuz wrote:
Yeah, floats are great I have always entertained that idea, where I am located, that makes sense because then, the waterways become your runways :laughing And the best thing about a gyro with floats, there is seldom any worry of crosswind :noidea :pop
Well done Jeff :like :koolaid :Wolvie

Careful Muz....you could wind up as Crocodile food. :)
Author:  MadMuz [ Sun Jun 21, 2015 10:45 am ]
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Gabor wrote:
That is way too cool. I want to have your babies.
Or Larry's for that matter.
:ultragay


Gabs! :eek What a tart you are :noidea :realcrazy .... :laughing :laughing Next you will be wanting them both at the same time :noidea :chainsaw

Oh well.....Don't forget to take video..... or at least pics.... I'd pay to see that :pop :laughing

Remember, pics or it didn't happen :rofl :rofl
Author:  MadMuz [ Sun Jun 21, 2015 10:51 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Excitement builds for Floats Cert
loftus wrote:
Larry and I had a great couple of days in Winter Haven doing the floats thing. It was really a pretty intense two days, and really great fun. I think I am hooked. Larry finished up his Sport Rating, but I was way too whacked out after 6.5 hours of instruction flying in 2 days to take my check ride. I decided to do the rating as a full PPL and get my fixed wing current at the same time. So I am going back for another hour or so next weekend and maybe the check ride if they can fit it in. Not really in a rush because I don't really need the rating anytime soon and one can only rent these things with an instructor anyway because of insurance. I plan to try go out there pretty regularly to keep on top of it.
Brown's Seaplane Base is right at the end of the Winter Haven runway so I can even fly there in the gyro to get some time. Pretty awesome setup they have.
My instructor Ben was pretty cool - he has phocomelia with almost no arm on the left and not much more on the right. He's a commercial pilot and can pretty much do anything with the handicap he has, pretty awesome.
The J-3 Cub is a sweet little airplane, about as simple as they come.



Sounds like you had a blast.... your instructor, Ben, sounds like a KuuuuL dude.... at least he is 'armless :like :laughing :laughing

Seriously, that is KuuuuL.... when a handicap is not even a handicap...... then there is no handicap :like

Good on him :like Tell him he can be an honorary wolverine if he goes for a blast in annoying orange with you :koolaid :laughing :wol2 :Wolvie
Author:  Gabor [ Sun Jun 21, 2015 4:41 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Excitement builds for Floats Cert
By the way...at one time they did try to fit me in a Cub.
BWAHAHAAAAAA :rofl :rofl :rofl
Author:  loftus [ Sun Jun 21, 2015 5:15 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Excitement builds for Floats Cert
Gabor wrote:
By the way...at one time they did try to fit me in a Cub.
BWAHAHAAAAAA :rofl :rofl :rofl

How did they get you out; with a can opener :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl
Author:  Always Gone [ Sun Jun 21, 2015 6:30 pm ]
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That looks like fun. The float gyro of victors would jump in the air with you.
Author:  MadMuz [ Sun Jun 21, 2015 8:15 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Excitement builds for Floats Cert
Gabor wrote:
By the way...at one time they did try to fit me in a Cub.
BWAHAHAAAAAA :rofl :rofl :rofl


That's enough! That's all we can bear :calmdown :ultragay :laughing :laughing: :Wolvie

I bet that made the cub swoon :noidea :rofl
Author:  Mike.Hunt [ Mon Jun 22, 2015 7:15 am ]
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hey, thats that mexican guy...... how can a mexican roofer afford to fly a plain? did you chek none of your tools were missing ha
Author:  MadMuz [ Mon Jun 22, 2015 8:39 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Excitement builds for Floats Cert
Yeah, it is hard to recognise him with out a beer in his hand? :laughing :laughing :wol2 :Wolvie
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