What a load of total bollocks! Get out of the Ottawa ghetto and visit such towns as Chapleau, Kenora, Yellowknife,Vancouver, Victoria, in all of these places plus dozens of others float planes land right downtown,{in fact we tied up at the hotel ramp in Kenora a few years back} even the Ottawa River has dozens of float planes along both the Ontario and Quebec shorelines, including many within city limits, To hear the "Chuck Yeager" Cessna instructors at the Ottawa Flying Club rag on about this is more an indication of how little they have seen of Canada, and how little they know about float flying or flying in general. Where I taught floats for a few years the best sheltered place for T/O was under the local bridge , but folks simply waved to us, not like the twits in our nations Capitol who think its OK to drive like idiots and boat with no flotation devices but for Gods sake get those dangerous rag and tube float planes to stop scaring us!Yes, its true the pilot should have worked it out that Ottawa is not the place to do anything resembling fun, but was it dangerous? no way!
Last edited by clunckdriver; 11th Aug 2014 at 11:00.