You can add a seaplane rating onto your certificate in as little as 2 days. Usually, you'll fly around 5 hours of training flights followed by a checkride. I recently got my rating and I promise it's one of the coolest experiences you can have as a pilot.
Here's how it works You'll find a glassy band of water on the upwind side of a lake. Waves generally form downwind of this, and increase in size further to the downwind side of a lake. At knots, you'll begin to see wind streaks on the lake parallel to the wind.
Whitecaps begin at knots of wind. You may look at the glassy surface of a lake and think it must be perfect for flying a seaplane into.
However, glassy water landings are actually the most dangerous maneuver you'll fly as a seaplane pilot. With no visual depth perception, it can be difficult to tell your height above the water. Seaplane pilots pick an aiming point and a last visual reference, sometimes the shoreline. Between the aiming point and last visual reference, you must establish yourself in a landing attitude, configuration, and specific power setting for descent. Then you wait for touching down on the water, always maintaining the same attitude and power setting.
You don't use your vertical speed indicator VSI , because it's a lag-instrument and only shows trends initially. If you're not established in your configuration by the last visual reference, you go-around. When sitting idle in the water, seaplanes weathervane into the wind nose-first. Your rudder and ailerons can be used as a miniature sail on the water in windy conditions to gently float backward in the direction you choose. If you ever see a rotating white and yellow beacon as opposed to white and green , it's a seaplane port.
Another reason is that Oshkosh is practically in our backyard and we often have one of our big rigs at the show all week long. Even though our batteries are not certified for aviation use, we know just about everyone who can afford an airplane can probably afford a car or truck as well and we'd love to be their battery of choice for those vehicles.
OPTIMA batteries can last up to three times as long as a traditional flooded lead-acid battery and they are up to 15 times more resistant to vibration than a flooded battery. In addition to automotive applications, OPTIMA batteries can also be found in a lot of ground support equipment at airports around the world, so we do spend a fair amount of time around airplanes. Find the right OPTIMA battery for your car or truck here and don't forget to check out all the seaplane pictures in the gallery below!
Considered on these terms, there are nearly 21 general aviation fatalities per every 2 million travel hours, suggesting that boarding a private plane is approximately 19 times more dangerous than getting behind the wheel of a car. A magnifying glass. Listen to a few of your favorite, relaxing albums. Start a great book before you leave and pick up mid-read during the flight….
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