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Old 01-19-2003 | 04:24 AM
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Default Wooooeeeee - Ready on Floats

First, I had never flown a float plane until today. Secondly, the float flights today were only the second and a bunch more on this plane. Flying the Ready off water with the Saito .72 was a complete blast. Some of the most fun the three of us ever had flying. The Ready on Floats is an awesome plane, only way to put it. Up in the air: loops, barrel rolls, inverted flight, stall turns, you name it. On the water it was sooooo pretty doing touch and goes, landing and taking off are a dream and so easy. This plane will fly along just off the water at a really slow speed with no tendency to stall. She was just beautiful. Falcon has a great little plane. The plastic plane idea is great for a floater; she stayed dry, had no bad tendency, and the all plastic construction meant water was not an issue anyway.

The only problem is this plane is a blast to fly off wheels also. We are thinking about taking the water rudder off her. That way she could switch back and forth from floats to wheels in about 20 minutes. With the water rudder you really can’t switch her back easily.

The picture is of my very first water landing. More is posted in the Review Forum.
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