Had similar experience on Alaska Penn south of King Salmon. Spotted a large jap fishing float with net, no where to land within 5 miles. Kept an eye on it for couple months hoping no one would see it. Finally found myself in the area in a cub with a pax., wind was blowing about 50 mph. Landed next to ball with zero roll out. Pax jumped out retrieved glass ball. One notch flaps and we were flying again Ball still sets in my living room with several others.

http://jalopnik.com/watch-a-bush-plane- ... 1783668717

If we'd all known how popular those would become, back when they often washed up. Now they're pretty darned rare, so people pay outrageous amounts for good ones.

Cary

Notice how the apparent rate of closure with the camera doesn't speed up at the bottom. I wonder what his airspeed indicator showed, not that it made any difference.

We can easily do this with giblet series stream-force. I make all my students do it without ailerons attached while using foggles.

Cary wrote:If we'd all known how popular those would become, back when they often washed up. Now they're pretty darned rare, so people pay outrageous amounts for good ones.

Cary

Cary even the small softball size are going for $2 to 3 in Anchorage. You could fill a 206 with several......... hundred from one landing back in the day.......But like u said who knew

wyomingiswindy wrote:We can easily do this with giblet series stream-force. I make all my students do it without ailerons attached while using foggles.

Wow that's neat....got a demo video can see ? What are foggles ?

No video at this time--it doesn't make much sense does it? Maybe if I say it a few more times it will become the standard vernacular for landing a plane...

I only once scored one of those glass balls. It was a tiny one and I thought I won the lottery! The window sill has a line of the cheap new age plastic ones to remind me of Alaskan adventures. I actually lay on a wooden one to break up the muscles in my back sometimes. One industry's trash, another culture's treasure!

Anyway, good score on the glass one!