2004 6.0 NV4500 Tahoe

[Geotrash]

You have a plane too? If some come on down to americas seaplane city! Tavares FL FA1 I’ll get you some swag lol.

It’s funny we say all the time there’s really only two types of seaplane pilots. Really darn good ones that are all around studs and high performers. Then not very competent ones which sometimes it’s because they just aren’t super smart, sometimes it’s lack of experience, or bad state of mind. But man it’s so easy to spot good vs bad ones.

Ah… another addict! I sold my share in my plane in 2023 because I’d moved to VA in 2019 and it was still in Colorado with the other 2 owners. It’s a ‘64 Cessna 182 and I flew it all over the western and central US, plus Alaska and western Canada.

Haven’t flown floats since I got my rating, but I agree with you. I spent a summer working for a seaplane service out of Lake Hood in Anchorage as a guide and we’d land on rivers and creeks across the Cook Inlet in the shadow of Denali to drop off/pick up fisherman. Those pilots were good - very few incidents and no fatal accidents in the 30 year history of the company by that time.

I agree - A good pilot is an artist. You know it when you see it.

 

[Dantheman1540]

Ah… another addict! I sold my share in my plane in 2023 because I’d moved to VA in 2019 and it was still in Colorado with the other 2 owners. It’s a ‘64 Cessna 182 and I flew it all over the western and central US, plus Alaska and western Canada.

Haven’t flown floats since I got my rating, but I agree with you. I spent a summer working for a seaplane service out of Lake Hood in Anchorage as a guide and we’d land on rivers and creeks across the Cook Inlet in the shadow of Denali to drop off/pick up fisherman. Those pilots were good - very few incidents and no fatal accidents in the 30 year history of the company by that time.

I agree - A good pilot is an artist. You know it when you see it.

Artist is a great way to describe it! I’m no pilot just a lowly airport manager, but with that comes seeing a lot of mistakes and legends lol.

We have a guy that summers in Alaska and recently got on with our part135 operation. I’ll never forget his first day flying tours on a busy Saturday and he stepped out of their 206 on amphibs and said “I’ve never seen such a dangerous place to fly” he said that while wearing a t shirt that said something about being an Alaskan bush pilot, which is obviously about the most badarse thing you can be. But what Alaska doesn’t have is a beach bar 100yards from the seaplane apron/fuel dock and he said he prefers struggling with alaskas wildlife, weather, and wilderness vs our mass of drunk boaters shooting every direction and never looming up for planes. Good times, aviation is never dull.