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Meatservo
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Cat Driver wrote:
You think it was a mechanical failure after reading the story and seeing the picture?

For sure it was an expensive accident, and hopefully it was due to mechanical failure and not to crew error.

I was not attempting to be dramatic, however I am trying to remember an easier float plane to fly than the Twin Otter......stand by while I see if I can remember one.
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I can remember flying one or two that I found a great deal easier. Cessna 185, Beaver, (turbo and original flavour) single Otter (turbo and regular flavour), Caravan, Norseman. Never flown a goose, or a twin beech on floats, but I know some real clowns who did so it can't be that difficult either. I guess it depends on what you're doing with them. It's probably true that if you aren't skillful enough to handle any one of these, you probably have no business flying any one of the other ones I've mentioned either. I didn't have much trouble with the Twin Otter either but I will say I sometimes had a hard time showing some other supposedly experienced pilots how to take off and land one on the CAP floats. I may have just been bad at demonstrating. I'm not a patient person.

I guess my point is, nothing is crash-proof, and if you have a bad landing, it's still going to be a bad landing even if later on Cat Driver says it's an easy or a difficult plane to fly. I agree, if stuff falls off due to your landing, it could probably be called a crash.


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Another crash in the Maldives!!

http://www.haveeru.com.mv/news/43281

Anybody who sees this photo and has flown there has got to be asking questions!! Conrad is one of the best places to land in monsoons. How did the plane end up off a breakwall? Where are the 4 foot waves in the picture. When will it end?


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Rowdy
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Payroll deduction? :rolleyes: :wink:

must have been some crazy cb's for it to get that ridiculous in the lagoon at the conrad. Just sayin'


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Lost Lake
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Don't think so Rowdy. I never weather turn that quick there. Only one answer, and we all know what it is.


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Lost Lake wrote:
Don't think so Rowdy. I never weather turn that quick there. Only one answer, and we all know what it is.


You knew what I meant :wink:


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