Things are moving along and I got in my first flights from the boat yesterday and it went well. The purpose was among other things practice from the boat although I,ve many long flight from a pickup but never a boat. Most important was working out how we are going to do things and procedures for starting and setup which is very important in the boat.

Also this gave us useful information on gas mileage of the pilot boat as well. We found we will be cruze around 27 to 31 checked via GPS with the exception of the no wake zones. Another limiting factor on speed will be boat wakes as any more than that become very difficult to fly. Anyway the target date is Nov 3.

Still working on a second boat as a helper boat and for the photo man. The gentleman in the photo is the boat operator and a trusted friend as well as modeler. Thank heavens for these strong fellows as it was quite a sight getting my big butt outta the wheelchair and into the boat


John