On Jan 28, 2:35 pm, es330td wrote:
What kind of space does it take to land/takeoff in a plane with
floats? I realize there are all sorts of rules about where one can do
this but I have a relative with a ranch that has a fairly decent sized
body of water on it. This is Texas, so its pretty flat with neglible
trees and I wondered if a plane could be put down there. I tried
looking around a little online but couldn't find anything that spelled
it out.

As I'm sure you already know, "it depends."

I've been occasionally flying a C-150/150 on EDO floats out of a stock
pond that's a couple thousand feet long and just a couple hundred
wide. Getting out, even on really hot days, has never been a problem.
Getting in is even easier, it needs well under 1,000.

You can splash down into surprisingly small ponds. You can get out of
most of them, too.