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How to Fly Floats
by J.J. Frey
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65 pages, softcover
Kenmore Air EDO Floats LLC, 2003
Available from SPA
$8.00 plus shipping and handling |
Contents:
- INTRODUCTION
- PREFLIGHTING
- Leakage Checks; Rudder Controls; Wind and Water Conditions; Area Check; Elevator Trim Adjustment
- TAXIING
- Basic Handling Tips; Three General Rules; Low Speed Taxiing and Turns; Step Taxiing; Step Turns
- TAKE-OFFS
- Check Lists; Taking-Off; Optimum Planing Angle; Inflight Handling; Glassy Water Take-Offs; Rough Water Take-Offs;
Take-Offs in Restricted Areas; Crosswind Take-Off; Porpoising
- LANDING
- Aerial Inspection; Landing in Normal Water; Landing in Rough Water; Glassy Water Landing; Night Landing;
Emergency Landing
- SAILING
- RULES OF THE ROAD
- 91.69 Right-of-way rules: Water Operations; Inland (U.S.) Waters; International Waters; Buoy Identification;
Unwritten Rules
- MOORING, DOCKING, BEACHING
- Mooring; Docking; Beaching; Ramping; Seaplane Base Identification
- FLYING AMPHIBIANS
- Description; Wheels-Up -- Wheels-Down; Land Taxiing; Preflighting; Water Operations
- SERVICE AND MAINTENANCE
- Corrosion; Painting; Salvage
- GETTING YOUR RATING
- INLAND LANDING RESTRICTIONS
- APPENDIX A
- Aircraft installed on EDO Floats
- APPENDIX B
- Surface Wind Force Table
- FLOAT PILOT FLIGHT RECORD AND LOG
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