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28th Annual Alaskan Aviation Safety Foundation Seaplane Seminar
OAS Tom Wardleigh Hangar
Lake Hood
April 20, 2013


0800 Doors Open-sign in*

0830 OAS- Harry Kieling...

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Nope just J3s. But my PA-11 had a 65 horse in it at one time.... According to the log books they yanked the A-65 out of her and installed a C-90-8 engine after only flying 30 hours with the 65...

I think that was me... I have used the little 2 inch home fireworks mortar shells for a few customers. The lifting charge expels the heavy tube's contents and the bursting color fireworks go off...

Legal gross on floats:

J3C-65 = 1300 pounds
PA-11 = 1350 pounds.

BY THE WAY<<< I AM GEARING UP FOR ANOTHER SEASON OF FLOAT RATINGS

I just found two of my good gas cans in a snow bank,,,

UNFORTUNATELY... I found them with the big Honda Track drive snow blower. They no longer hold anything....

Dang, that makes two pilots I knew who have gone west,,, this month alone..



Donald Dale West, 60, died peacefully in his sleep March 2, 2013, in Fairbanks.
He was born June 23, 1952, in...

AVIATION SAFETY SEMINAR **
Sponsored by
The Alaskan Aviation Safety Foundation
and
The FAA

WHEN: TUESDAY, February 26, 2013
7:00 PM

WHERE: Missionary Air Repair Center...

I give Single Engine Sea ratings in my PA-11-90 ( A converted J3C ) Last summer I charged $1,750 for my end of things... Which included 10 hours in the plane, my instruction, including ground and a...

When in doubt,,,,, chicken out!

WIND SPEED GUESS-TA-MATION FROM BODIES OF WATER
1 knot or less= Glassy surface
1-3 knots= Light ripples on some surface areas with glassy water on lee shore.
4-7 knots= small wavelets that do not...

1. When you let your EGO do the flying, it will always carry you right to the scene of the crash ...

http://avstop.com/stories/part1seaplane.htm

http://www.clickorlando.com/news/Seaplane-crashes-into-boat-on-Seminole-County-lake/-/1637132/15689256/-/39a9ev/-/index.html

Dave, how much weight do you think the flaps and associated parts added? I flew a flap converted PA-11 with a Lyc 235,,, to compare it to my flapless PA-11 with a C-90. The only thing that...

I remember trying top research this a couple years ago.... I went through 10 years of NTSB reports and pulled out all the seaplane accidents. I do not remember finding any accidents between...

My saddest time of year..
I only had 17 customers,,,,, loosing two more when my cylinder and oil sump were cracked for 10 days.

I pulled out of the lake early this year due to the weather down...

My old 100 pound German Shepherd " Heidi" does not have a probelm with being stuck in the back of the Cub for long periods of time.

But,, my new addition to the family " Maxwell" is a very short...

I made mine out of a piece of an old Snow-Machine track.

How things are going so far:

THE FAA


ME:
answer...

THE FAA:

My 1946 J3C, which is currently in a PA-11 -90 configuration....,,, was born as a J3C-65. Originally with an A-65-8 engine.
But the log books show in May 1950 they converted the A-65 to an A-75-8...

Now I can see why my examiner won't stick his neck out with the FAA. If it is not clearly in the current regs, they have no idea... And they would certainly knife you in the back if something goes...

Well, I asked the same question with FAA NATIONAL.. HQ. They passed the Buck to Anchorage FISDO,,,,,,,, or rather had me do it....
Nobody working there has been around long enough to know what the...

For years I have avoided putting VGs on my PA-11 due to the snow and ice we get here....
Last year somebody came here with another PA-11 that was almost exactly like mine but they had Micro Vgs. It...

Lawyers = everything wrong in the world. They always want to become politicians. Yuck...

The FAA opinion once being that private certificates earned before Aug 1997 (which said no night flying)...

Well the examiner is still refusing to give my buddy his check-ride.... he says that he thinks that things may have changed when the FAA went to using the international regs.... he won't know until...