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Old 10th Jul 2020, 07:28
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Originally Posted by Teddy Robinson
Thank you for a very enlightening and succinct explanation of the floatplane flying environment, now this begins to make sense.
You are correct, this fluidity in available landing areas and circuit patterns is something "conditioned" out of us from our first circuits and still applies when flying visual circuits in heavier machinery.

This was completely off my radar.

Thank you.

TR
In that sense, are floatplanes comparable to helicopter operations ?

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