Had a couple of hundred hours on a C206 ex-floatplane, by then working off a grass strip at a '90s jump centre. Most solid 206 ever, no creaking or groaning while taxiing, no 'walkabout windscreen' to spray water in your face & soak the seat after a rainstorm, - no rate of climb to write home about either! Rock solid in IMC & enough hand & toe holds to keep a gibbon fit, - loved it, trusted it. : )
OK! You qualify for the term "university". Just a wonderful presentation of a catalogue of facts...some of which I will even probably remember! (even though I have absolutely no use for this information whatsoever! 🙂)
Another fascinating video, every day is a school day 👍😊💜👍 I live a long way inland and yesterday, a Cessna Amphibious (darn sure it wasn't just a float 'plane), overflew the house, you could have knocked me over with a feather! We do have some wealthy homes around lakes nearby - maybe he was going there, but those lakes are quite small🤔
@@skywagonuniversity5023 😄😄 yeah I know, hope our local fella knows that too😲😄😄 My dad has had several Cessna's any pilot can get em into a strip (or lake), takes an aviator or trailer to get them out again 😲😄🤣👍✌️ My dad was a good short strip/field soft strip aviator btw😉😉👍
This might sound picky and stupid, but have you ever considered painting your hanger door? No need to reply, just an observation. The info on floats was quite good!
We did paint it. That is how it came out, and it is a county hangar, and it is rented. So the sun beats on the outside and super-heats the metal so that the paint dries up and falls off, so we didn't do it again.
Only one fault with whiskey barrel chairs, after a couple of hours of supreme comfort, your bum will likely fail a roadside breath test . . . so clench a mint when driving : )
Now, at the high risk of displaying ignorance, why has the 1986 WAG AERO J-3 CUB REPLICA on trade a plane hung around so long? Worries about the fabric/limited range/useful load.... or simply the price?
It was just a general question for all watchers of this channel. It is, along the theme of this video, a float aeroplane, but one that has been listed for over 12 months. As an aircraft dealer, I wouldn't expect you to comment directly, as that would probably be unprofessional. I was just curious if anyone had a view as to why it hasn't moved for what seems quite along time.@@skywagonuniversity5023
Of course many early Cessna 180's were flying commercially on floats before the float kit was available they did ok but if anywhere near the coast the salty air would not be good for your bare aluminum Cessna 180 @@skywagonuniversity5023
Wow, lots of good information. Weird random fact, the slab of metal that bolts into the forward float strut/gear mount area is often called a "Pork Chop" and can fetch a decent price on their own.
Very first plane ride was in a A185F, the sound of the prop at 2850 rpm on takeoff was awesome and will forever be with me, been an airplane nut ever since.
I was working aircraft maintenance up in the western arctic, and our boss would always buy used aircraft, but one time he bought a new one, it was a 1977 Cessna 185 with float kit. He was flying in cloud one day and hit a mountain, he was very lucky that day, he lost one Federal wheel ski and gear leg but was able to keep on flying. Long ago memory
He landed at Cap Parry NWT, Canada a DEW line site on the arctic coast run by the USAF to detect incoming attacks from the Soviet's. There was accommodation and food available there. It happened in 1980/81 and the DEW line closed in 1982. He damaged the propeller and a wingtip my Dad flew over with tools and a propeller repaired the landing gear to ferry the plane out. The normal Base was Inuvik 300 miles west. The Boss had more than a few crashes over the years but was a good man.
Yes hard to avoid and every pilot has to deal with the risks in his own way, near the end of my Dad's career he found himself flying airplanes that had GPS onboard, he said that really took the challenge out of bush flying in the Canadian arctic. Up there compass's were unreliable and few if any VOR's existed so it was navigation by knowing the land and also NDB's, in dirty weather it really was a challenge.@@skywagonuniversity5023
I have zero interest in any Cessna model (except the TTX/Columbia) or float planes but your incredible breadth of knowledge makes every subject interesting. Thank you ♠️
Well of information; not so easily obtainable. I suspect that the firewall includes a strengthened or doubled stainless reinforcement and likely the gascolator has additional part's and the POH maybe is titled Float Plane. This cache of details is more valuable than gold. Thank you Mark. * Probably the propeller is specified differently?
For a guy in the bx, and with a float rating (rag wings), this was very very useful. Am now considering a 182 on floats and would really like to know how much of this applies to Skylanes. Thinking 550, sportsman or Peterson. When I talked to Peterson he said he didn't know much about floats on his a/c.
Skylanes (182's) never had a "float kit" but some float manufacturers made floats that could go on 182's specifically. This was due to the popularity of the float flying and the lack of 180's and 185's, and the wider cabin of the 182, (but they do have electric flaps)
Some time back you had a video defining such structural provisions for taking floats as..float provisions, figuring the term "float kit" was logically for the actual floats, which made sense. But, what it's called is what they call it.. Guess its a bit like aluminium vs aluminum
Flew 206s in the Ozzy outback in my youth. All had the windscreen brace which was handy to hang onto while adjusting seat etc. One had actually been on floats so had the big rudder. Nice in a strong crosswind.
What a great deep dive into this aircraft, I enjoyed all of it! I think my favorite nugget was about the exhaust pipe being shaped the way it is. That was pretty cool to learn about.