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Best Float flying technique? - 8/15/2003 5:12:24 PM   
xtech


 

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Status: offline 		Hi, I have just finished my .20 floats for my Kadet JR. I have read some articles and talked w/flyers and now I am throughly confused on take off and landing techniques. ha ha. I would apprecite advice on all aspects escpecially throttle and speeds for takeoff and landings. Im also a new flyer. I can fly just enough to scare myself a few times a day, ha ha Thanks
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Best Float flying technique? - 8/16/2003 7:19:09 AM   
JimCasey



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Status: offline 		Takeoff:
Point the plane into the wind.
Note: If you can't tell which way the wind is blowing, take up roller skating or something. Hold full up elevator. Advance the throttle. This will help initially keep the prop out of spray and help you get up on step. The plane will first make a lot of wake, it will nose up, then the nose will drop as it gets up on step. This part only takes about 2 seconds or less. Neutralize the elevator. Let the plane accelerate and gently ease back on the stick. It'll lift off when it's ready. DOn't haul back on the stick so far that the heel of the float digs in. That will just slow you down and if it does lift off, it'll probably stall back in.

Landing:
Set up for a glide from the downwind direction. . Watch with your peripheral vision for the shadow crossing the opposite bank. Only then, let it down below the tree line. As it gets close to the water begin your flare. Watch for the reflection of the plane in the water. Try to fly two inches off the water. Instead of hauling back on the stick, add a coupla' clicks of power to control the rate of descent. When the reflection meets the airplane, you have landed. (watered?) If you do it right, the airplane will not skip after it touches.


Next time you fly with wheels, you will notice your landings are better.

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Best Float flying technique? - 8/17/2003 12:24:31 AM   
4*60


 

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Status: offline 		If you are a beginner 6 inches off the water is OK the first time.

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Best Float flying technique? - 8/24/2003 10:54:48 PM   
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Status: offline 		What are you talking about, Jim? THE way to take off (saw it demonstrated by this crazy float flyer from Fla...they ran himout of the state though.) is to set the plane on the grass and point it at the lake, apply power and lift off as the ground drops away to the water lever.

Z

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Best Float flying technique? - 8/25/2003 5:35:40 AM   
JimCasey



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Status: offline 		I think the guy you described taking off from the grass was insecure and had a well-deserved inferiority complex. It was probably just a cry for help. Also he forgot about gravelly riverbanks in TN and got some nasty gouges in the bottoms of his floats.

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Best Float flying technique? - 8/25/2003 9:14:38 AM   
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Status: offline 		But isn't it river rock rather than gravel, so it just "rolls" over the rocks?

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Best Float flying technique? - 8/25/2003 10:20:52 AM   
Smoky



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Status: offline 		Yeah! What Jim says!

Just make sure you keep the floats UNDER the Airplane all the time. If they go OVER the airplane,,,, you goofed. LOL

If that happens. DO NOT Right the plane after you pick it up. Hold it up just the way it was in the water and let all the water drain out 1st. This water will be at the top of the cabin. and not on your radio or servo's unless you right the plane to early then it will fall down onto your electronics. after the water is drained
then right the plane and slowly turn the engine over by hand to make sure it is not Hydrolocked. if it is hydrolocked? then remove the glowplug and spin it over a few times to clean it out. then re install glowplug and restart the Engine as soon as possible to Expell any left over moisture in the Engine. Then you get to try again. simple eh?

Smoky.

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Best Float flying technique? - 8/31/2003 9:54:06 PM   
dinosaur454



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Status: offline 		Ironsides has a good primer on float flying. Heres the address. webhome.idirect.com/~ironsidz/floats.htm. Dennis

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