I do hope after all the effort from so many people, not to mention the donations that MK has received to get this bird in the air again that this time he keeps the thing in the air and gets it to the destination without crashing again.
Having read through the b*l*x on his website, if he were only to concentrate on the flight he might stand a fighting chance of completing the trip.
But my feeling is that he'll go off piste as he needs the attention. Why bother using floats when he has to cross 1000nm of desert?