Especially if you have a "mishap" a couple of hundred feet from the shore and the aircraft is taking on water.. move quickl

Apart from a leaky float I had a very rewarding and educational first weekend of float flying last weekend. I followed the guidelines I had read and been given about float installation, takeoffs and landings, and voila! Nothing scary at all about the basics of float flying, except for the aforementioned leaky float. I don;t hink anyone on the lake had seen an R/C seaplane before so there were several curious people (with EXTREMELY curious kids - a good thing!) boating over to say hi and check it out.

My $0.02 worth of advice from my experience is to float the airplane for a while, then check to see if the floats took on any water. Of course, with skinned/glassed foam floats that's less of a problem than with hollow floats.

Mike D.