Playing with my new GoPro camera mounted on my Cessna 180 float plane. A short video of landing and taking off on a small lake on a hot calm day to visit a friend's cottage. Glassy water requires a special...
You can see pics of my plane at my Photobucket album page. Its based at my dock on the south end of Borden lake near Chapleau, ON. It even shows up on Google Earth.
http://s10.photobucket.com/user/Korpela...
Hey pilatuski, can't you fly floats all year round in NZ? What stops us here is that the lakes freeze over and get covered with a meter of snow. Depressing I tell ya. :lol:
I used to fly on skis every winter. Now I don't feel its worth it. Its expensive to change over from floats and back, rough ice and overflow conditions are hard on the plane, you gotta pre-heat, clean...