Beefitarian wrote:That's good to read ESP. I hope you have a great season.

To you as well! Just went for my first rip on floats in about 3 years... feels great to be back on the water!

Lucky you Esp, I miss a 3T!

Enjoy Yukon and stay safe.

I am back with the piston ones but I love them.

Gilles

Won't be on the 3 this season, but hopefully all the other birds! I'd love to go for a rip in the piston otter some day!

esp803 wrote:Won't be on the 3 this season, but hopefully all the other birds! I'd love to go for a rip in the piston otter some day!

They have a better airframe, not abused with too much power and upgross kits.

Those stoneboats were designed for 8,000 lbs @ 100 mph. Not 9,000 lbs @ 135 mph

Hi Elvis!

Where in Canada will you be this summer???

At home my friend, at home...almost, well, 6 min drive to the base. Is that close enough?

One from 5 years ago... the skier can out power the plane in the turns

esp803 wrote:the skier can out power the plane in the turns

Could
Past tense. Before the loss of beard. Now that that's gone, he probably can't even win an arm wrestle.

esp803 wrote:One from 5 years ago... the skier can out power the plane in the turns

Hell, tied to the tail a skier could probably out power an Otter!

Slats wrote:Past tense. Before the loss of beard. Now that that's gone, he probably can't even win an arm wrestle.

Lost the beard! Unacceptable!

A small point of order:

Skiers point their feet forward, and negotiate around buoys at the outermost point of their turns; since the person in the picture has his feet pointing sideways, and there's nary a buoy in sight, we can safely assume that he is not a skier, but rather, a wakeboarder...

PS, cool pic - I've often wondered about doing that (but could never get past the safety/f@$king around with the boss' aircraft risk/reward equation) I'd imagine that you'd really pull the tail around if you dug in hard.. otoh, the airtime would be spectacular!

That's not Gene the Cretin, is it?

I seem to think I will have oodles of shots of this otter by the end of the season... all I really want is a shot of me flying my airplane to feed my ego haha.

GoPro shot

What did you use to mount that? roll bar mount on the pitot tube?

Yep

Here's a few from the Yellowknife Floatplane Fly-in last weekend. Turns out all my best shots were of the local planes, and didn't get too many good ones of the visitors!

Nice shot of Joe's Norseman.

I've decided I only fly planes that used to have radials and are now converted to turbines.