Well I got it up in the air today. Wow!!!, getting off the water wasn't as easy as I thought it would be. Here's what I had problems with.
It got up on top of the step real EZ and ran nice and straight, for awhile, rite up to trying to get it to break water. It seemed to pull one float off first then the plane would hook hard left. I was lucky it didn't hook the wing tip and cartwheel. It did that a few times, but again luckly I saved it. I ran around and little, caught my breath and went again. On the first real takeoff I rocked it back and forth with the ailerons stick and it finally broke water, not very pretty, as it tried to suck the left wing down again, but I got airborne. I really think if I didn't have the OS 60 up front I wouldn't of make it, It came off the water going almost at a 45 deg clime and hooking left, but I gained altitude and flew around a little. The Plane flew just fine with the floats on, the CG was good and felt solid in the air, a small filling of mushyness, but hey, with the added weight I figured as much.

On the first landing I cut all the power and started to glide in and remembered I read to carry a little power on landing with the floats on. It hit the water did a skip and a hop side to side and settled out....... Man.... I was happy to get that over with.
The second flight wasn't much different or better then the first. I must of made all the same mistakes again, because it just started to break the water, then it hooked left and just stuck to the water like Jaws had a mouth full of the floats. I was really happy it was stuck to the water because I had the hammer down and it became a VERY FAST speed boat, going a little wild on the water tell I yanked the power off. If it would of dipped that left wing again and if it would of touched the water it would have for sure did some serious damage. Funny thing is the engine never quit both times, and I mean there was water flying everywhere when it became a wild speed boat.
I didn't give up... I was getting air borne again or I was going to have a boat ride to go pick up the floating balsa. It made it in the air. again, not much prettier, It was Ugly. but it made it. The landing was a lot nicer, one bounced it, and settled down just fine, nice and straight, no tank slapper this time.

Well I shook out my undies, and went for the third shot. I let it get dead into the wind and rolled into the OS 60 slow..slow...slow. THEN... Nail it. It started to skate around doing nice little "S"'s across the water, it was doing some serious skating and I was hangin on. I let it go and I can tell ya it was moving on the water. I saw my chance and up it went, and Damm... as ugly as it was, I was real happy it was in the air and not wildly doing 60 MPH on the water anymore. I got some air under it and.... Whammo.. it went wild in the air. loss of control, like I was getting a major radio hit. It was doing some weird stuff up there, coming in and out of control. No elevator one second, then no airly's the next. It wasn't what I would call a fun flight, but I got it down on the water. I got close and dropped out of the sky flat on the floats. And I'm not kiddin, still running. Boy was I glad to get it back to the bank and shut it off.
I pulled the wing off and I had a few drops of water coming out of the switch and the charging jack was soaked, and the aileron servos had water dripping out of them. No big water in the radio compartment mind you, a few drops. I did have the rec wrapped and tied up, not a drop in there. I flipped the switch back on and the elev. was fluttering like crazy, and sticking, up-down-up-down, Not good!!!

So that's how my first shot at Float Flying went.... I can't wait to get this radio glitch worked out ...wet radio gear "or" what ever it is. I'm ready to go back out and give it another try. I'm sure I made every Float Flying RC Plane mistake today. But I learned a little. Next time, a little more.