Our club finally found another place to do our float flying from after losing our previous site.

I decided to try floats on my cub since it is the smallest plane I have and it would be cheap and easy to do.

I had to do some creative mods to get the water rudder that I had to fit on the cub. I may not need it, I watched a video of the cub without a water rudder and it did okay.

The floats were easy to put on. They looked like they would cause a lot of drag, so I put on the larger prop that came with them. They also looked like they would change the CG a lot.

The CG checked out great. My first flight was made early in the morning on our wet grass runway. It took off great, the larger prop provides plenty of thrust. Also NO pitch trim was required! It flies great, just a little bit slower and a little less responsive. Half-throttle seems like a great setting and gives plenty of control.

Will try it later this month on some water. Should be a real hoot.