Skywagon fly-out fun...

This thread is so awesome and inspiring. And envy-inducing.

Finger Lakes, NY region to OSH:

First stop, Bay City, MI. The river runs right next to the airport. Normally ideal for fueling, the truck can back down to the water and the hose reaches. The truck pump was inop, glad I had the young guys.



5:20 enroute. One tech stop, one fun stop. It went quickly for these two.



I highly recommend Silver Lake, MI; eastern shore of Lake Michigan. You can pull right up to these large dunes, pretty cool.







Finally to OSH, where our camping neighbors were the guys in the turbine 206, good guys.

Holy smokes dude....you were moored right next to us in 48T.

Well we could have just about walked around on that algae and checked out the Skywagons! Sorry to miss you

aqua wrote:Well we could have just about walked around on that algae and checked out the Skywagons! Sorry to miss you

When I saw that photo I thought they were parked on the grass and wondered why Zzz said they were "Moored".

Labor day weekend photo dump. Left Lake of the Ozarks 1000am on Friday and made Havasu by 6pm, Taxi up to the channel and watched the show until sunset, Quick blast down river to a nice beach campsite. Slept on my cot in the plane, buddy had to unload the plane and tent it. ie, Camp Gear, Efoil with extra battery (used it everywhere, Lots of setup and take down), ESkateboard (didnt use it), Inflatable Standup Paddle board (came in very handy), 2 Base rigs (No comment), O2 (used it). Got up had breakfast, My buddy taught pretty girls to Efoil, Flew to and taxied into the Gorge, another show. Checked out Lake mead, landed in a cove near the dam, Buddy efoiled to the dam for photos. Mead wasnt as appealing so hopped over to KLAS Signature, Hilton for the night. Next morning all the Jet drivers were looking at my machine across the ramp. Then off to Lake Powell. Started off with some nice open areas, This plane attracts pretty girls, then into the canyons. Diving in, Step Taxi in the canyons. Found an incredible spot to Efoil, Stand up paddle board, Camp for the night. Next morning photos, Efoiled, Paddle boarded, Broke camp at 11am, decided to call it a win. Planning the Rt, Lt, Lt, Rt departure out of the canyons was exhilarating. Home Monday in Missouri at 8pm. The plane gets along at 165ktas no problem. Photos cannot do it justice.
Lake of the Ozarks

South of Lake Havasu City

Lone Rock Lake Powell

Escalante River. When I built this plane, I knew it would go to Powell and get into and out of the good spots during the best time to be there. OAT temps in the upper 90s, Water temps in the 80s. Lucked out on low to no wind.

2022 Alaska float season off to an incredible (albeit recently smoky) start...

Keep your damn feet off the seats!

BRD wrote:

What floats are under that machine

Only flight of the day was a 2pm pickup. Took my fly rod, left a few hours early, and waited for the group at a nearby stream.

How did you do?

asa wrote:Only flight of the day was a 2pm pickup. Took my fly rod, left a few hours early, and waited for the group at a nearby stream.

Where is 08Q at now? Watched that thing for from ProMech to Taquan to RDM in Ketchikan.

IFR time.
This airplane is the 1st in the world to fly an LPV approach to water.

Capt. Chaos wrote:IFR time.
This airplane is the 1st in the world to fly an LPV approach to water.

20210730_063506-01.jpg

Where is there an LPV approach that terminates at a water airdrome? How do they protect the airspace? Must be adjacent to an actual airport?

Halestorm wrote:

Capt. Chaos wrote:IFR time.
This airplane is the 1st in the world to fly an LPV approach to water.

20210730_063506-01.jpg

Where is there an LPV approach that terminates at a water airdrome? How do they protect the airspace? Must be adjacent to an actual airport?

Ketchikan, Fairbanks, and Kenai come to mind of airports that have water runways parallel to main paved runway and instrument approaches available within controlled airspace so it would be an easy “circle” (really a small sidestep is all required) to land even on an ILS. But LPV would require the approach to actually name the water runway. Very interested in hearing more

asa wrote:

Halestorm wrote:

Capt. Chaos wrote:IFR time.
This airplane is the 1st in the world to fly an LPV approach to water.

20210730_063506-01.jpg

Where is there an LPV approach that terminates at a water airdrome? How do they protect the airspace? Must be adjacent to an actual airport?

Ketchikan, Fairbanks, and Kenai come to mind of airports that have water runways parallel to main paved runway and instrument approaches available within controlled airspace so it would be an easy “circle” (really a small sidestep is all required) to land even on an ILS. But LPV would require the approach to actually name the water runway. Very interested in hearing more

More I think about this the more I don’t like it. LPV minima can be as low as 200’, not really a good scenario for a circle to land.

How do you define adequate visual reference if you break out at 200’ above glassy water?

Certainly no night operations either.

I could be wrong, but I thought one of the Louisiana seaplane bases used to have a dedicated approach. That was before GPS approaches though.

I worked out of FAI Float Pond for twenty years and never heard of anyone flying an approach with a side step to the pond, though would be easy enough to do when weather is well above minimums. At or even close to ILS minimums….no way.

And, likewise, just because someone flew an LPV approach, without knowing what the weather was at the time……could’ve been VFR…..or we’ll above minima.

MTV