Originally Posted by
DaveReidUK
Of course all bets are off if, as here, your company operates two Beavers, one a pure floatplane and the other an amphibian (as alluded to by the OP), and you have a brain fade and are convinced you're flying the floatplane today.
I have decided never to try to fly an amphibian, after reading so many times that a wheels-down landing on water (whether pilot error or malfunction) is the easy way to kill yourself in a floatplane (and I wouldn't trust myself never to make that error).