New Floatplane Forum for UK/Europe

[Jobby Wheecher]

OK Folks - second attempt. Those nasty nasty people at PPrune Moderators Towers forbid me :p from posting a direct link to 'another place' so ..... in words of one syllable .......

Due to the absence of a pprune Floatplane Forum (hint) ;) , an alternative has been set up on shock horror .... another site.

This is to act as a focal point for all you feetwet flyers out there. Have you been to Florida, got the US rating and wondered what to do next ? Have you been to Caledonian Seaplanes in Scotland, got your UK Float rating, and wondered what to do next ? Have you seen the recent articles in Pilot/Flyer and thought ... I wanna do that next ...... or have you just stumbled in here on the way back from the latest pprune bash ...... whatever, this is for YOU !

Syndicates ? Lobbying ? Places to visit ? Advice ? Best practice ? Hopefully we'll have it all .... it's a start.

PM me for the forum, or look for 'scottishfloaters' at Y**OO (you know the one I mean) Groups.

Scuse me .....
Off to have a wheech ..........

[PH-UKU]

Sounds like a grand idea ! Anyone out there doing their float rating in the near future .... ?

[NorthSouth]

Anyone out there doing their float rating in the near future Supposed to be going up to Loch Earn this weekend to finish off - did a weekend in May last year but due to certain Very Important Pilots using all the time on the aircraft I didn't complete. This time round the problems are (a) weather and (b) no aircraft - still in hangar on a 150hr check:{

[Chuck Ellsworth]

If anyone is interested you can get water training on a Dutch Registered PBY this summer for 3000.00 Euro's per flight hour.

That price includes my rate. :D

Chuck E.

[NorthSouth]

you can get water training Jeez, two thousand quid an hour just to sit on the water. You'd really have to like sailing for that price.

[Monocock]

If this rain keeps coming i'll need a float plane to get airborne off my strip....

[Flyin'Dutch']

I must be thick.

Can't find it.

Can you do a link.

I know what you wrote but they prob don't read this far down.

;)

FD

[PH-UKU]

This seems to be err..... taking off .... 33 members joined in a week !

Does this mean that there is a lot of untapped floaty potential out there ? Must admit that anyone I've spoken to tries it once and is hooked.

So what is it about float flying ? (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scottishfloaters/)