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Old August 26th 06, 04:49 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting,rec.aviation.owning
Jim Macklin
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Default Current state of Seaplane fuel

http://www.seaplanes.org/
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"Nathan Young" wrote in message
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| On 25 Aug 2006 13:35:48 -0700, "Robert M. Gary"

| wrote:
|
| I'm curious what the current state of sea plane fuel is.
When I started
| flying sea planes cross countries were planned to docs
where boat fuel
| was available and most all seaplanes had mogas STCs.
Since avgas is so
| rare on the water and seaplanes have such short legs what
are people
| doing today with regard to cross countries in straight
floats?
|
| I do not have any personal experience with floatplane
flying, but
| there was a great article a few months ago (I think in
EAA's Sport
| Aviation) about flying straight floats to Oshkosh.
|
| It opened my eyes to how much difficulty floatplane pilots
have
| securing fuel on cross-countries.


 




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