Holy Cow!
I was able to fly twice this past weekend, one short flight off the back of a Chris Craft at Willard Bay and 5-6 flights at a nice quiet pound.

Flying a float plane is definitely different. With 20 ounces hanging a foot below the wing you get some strange flying characteristics. Turns are very different with the plane wanting to pull itself back over and so you need sustained aileron control. You definitely need to use a lot of rudder for your turns. Knife edge flight was very interesting; these floats are a bit tall so they seem to actually add some lift in addition to the fuse. The plane slips all over the place with the floats and so with the plane on its side it actually climbs at speed with it slipping nose up. The plane is about 6 pounds which is still plenty light for the .46. Take offs are fairly short and I get a ton of float on my landings. I can keep the throttle on and harrier her all the way down for a 15 foot landing if I’m brave enough. I dropped a wing once yesterday and was able to test how well she floats upside down. With that big wing the fuse actually stays a couple inches out of the water.

My incidence seems fine, I keep just a touch of up elevator and she takes off. If I keep the nose down she gets a bit unstable on the floats and goes off in crazy directions.

I think this is an excellent float plane. It’s very strange to see a float plane hovering, flying knife edge loops, and doing flat spins. The symmetrical wing is a bit of a pain in the turns since you need to fly at about 90 degrees to get a nice sharp turn. But I think the easy approaches and take offs are worth the non-scale flight for me.

The plane and floats took 10-15 inch waves well at the busy reservoir, just aim into the wind and go with full throttle; the big waves actually launch the plane in a short distance. I’m running a 12x4 prop and that’s the biggest I would want to go with, the prop did hit the water once on a not so pretty touch and go.
There wasn’t any “spray” coming off the front of the floats, the built in splash rails did a fabulous job of keeping the water away from the prop. For the money those are awesome floats.