For those who liked 60 Degrees North you might also like a DVD available from http://www.worldairroutes.com/VIA.html titled Beaver Beech 18. It's similar to 60 North in that it's mostly videoed from the cockpits of Vancouver Island Air's Beaver and Beech 18's with some air to air and ground to air. This DVD doesn't have a musical soundtrack though. Instead you hear the radial engines.

Russ Kaye

Thanks for the tip. That'll be next! I just watched 60 N again tonight. I was noticing the steep, nose down approach attitudes in some of the shots. If it looks nose down from the external camera angle, it must have looked like a real plunge from the cockpit. Despite that, I didn't notice much float in ground effect (or water effect or whatever seaplane guys call it). Are floats in general so draggy that you can vary the pitch attitude that much and not give up precision on the touchdown zone? Is the Beaver particularly draggy so attitude doesn't matter so much? If you did that in most landplanes, you'd touch down in the next county. On wheels, the gospel is steep and stabilized, constant pitch attitude and speed, control descent rate with power. Floats must be a whole different game. I'm interested in how it works.

CAVU