Amphibious Planes

On Sep 1, 8:33 pm, (Drew Dalgleish)
wrote:
On Mon, 1 Sep 2008 17:36:24 -0400, Gezellig
wrote:

Who determines where you can or cannot land one?

In Canada it's the pilot.

Not everywhere. See http://www.qp.gov.bc.ca/statreg/reg/....htm#ScheduleA
for restrictions in B.C.

Dan

On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 16:30:17 -0500, Lonnie wrote:

What got me interested was a poster who was claiming he liked the Icon
A5 which is built around the corner from me.

http://www.iconaircraft.com/

The statement was he thought it would be neat to be able to fly from
lake to lake or whatever, the idea of freedom of access to many
waterbodies (the sports, shores, camping, etc). Sounded nice to me as
well but practical?

I don't know what the Corp's policy is today, but they do have regs that
forbid air delivery on Corp property and lakes, without a permit granted
days in advance. Unless it was an established seaplane base.

As in parcel or goods delivery?

I have seen ultralights at the lakes on floats, but have no idea if any have
been stopped or fined.

Same here.

On Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:39:05 -0400, Bryan Martin wrote:

The Great Lakes have a big problem with zebra mussels, a salt water
species that were imported in ballast water from seagoing freighters.
They have thrived in the big lakes and have been spreading into more and
more inland lakes.

The effect being...?

On Wed, 03 Sep 2008 03:31:15 GMT, Drew Dalgleish wrote:

On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 16:51:25 -0400, Gezellig
wrote:

On Tue, 02 Sep 2008 19:23:47 GMT, Drew Dalgleish wrote:

The proliferation of jet skis has one positive side. Many marinas now
sell premium gas which is usually ethanol free. My plane is an
amphibian so I usually just buy 100LL at an airport. Saves the hassle
of checking every time.

Drew, are you more concerned with contamination at a boat dock mogas
facility than at the airport? I would although I am not sure I can
justify why.

No I think there's nothing wrong with buying gas at a marina if it's
ethanol free. I have had trouble getting to the pumps at marinas for
some reason they think it's neccessary to put lampposts and mast
hoists right where I want my wing.

lol

On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 20:51:49 -0700 (PDT), Robert M. Gary wrote:

Right now its a major issue in California. Apparently some mussels are
spreading across the South and have now taken up in SoCal. Many in
central/northern California are very worried about it. Some lakes just
have signs about avoiding certain lakes and not putting your boat in a
strange lake unless its been out of the water for 30 days. Some
places, like Clearlake, have made it a criminal offense to put
anything in the water that has not been issued an official seal by an
inspector.

http://www.co.lake.ca.us/Government/...Prevention.htm

-Robert

http://www.gma.org/surfing/human/zebra.html

Now I understand, gruesome buggers, aren't they?

"Gezellig" wrote in message
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On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 16:30:17 -0500, Lonnie wrote:

What got me interested was a poster who was claiming he liked the Icon
A5 which is built around the corner from me.

http://www.iconaircraft.com/

The statement was he thought it would be neat to be able to fly from
lake to lake or whatever, the idea of freedom of access to many
waterbodies (the sports, shores, camping, etc). Sounded nice to me as
well but practical?

I don't know what the Corp's policy is today, but they do have regs that
forbid air delivery on Corp property and lakes, without a permit granted
days in advance. Unless it was an established seaplane base.

As in parcel or goods delivery?

The landing of anything, by any manner. Aircraft, parachutes, etc. Arriving
on Corp property by air.


I have seen ultralights at the lakes on floats, but have no idea if any
have
been stopped or fined.

Same here.

On Sep 2, 11:02 pm, Gezellig wrote:
On Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:39:05 -0400, Bryan Martin wrote:
The Great Lakes have a big problem with zebra mussels, a salt water
species that were imported in ballast water from seagoing freighters.
They have thrived in the big lakes and have been spreading into more and
more inland lakes.

The effect being...?

Having zebra mussels in a lake is like putting glass shards all around
and attaching them to anything where the water flows. They are
extremely prolific (1 million from one in a year), stink up
everything, and the shells are so sharp that chainmail gloves are
needed to handle submerged boat parts or dock hardware etc.

There is an organization (the 100th Meridian initiative) that has been
trying to keep ZM confined to the eastern half of the country. They
had propagated as far as Kansas but in Dec 2006 they were discovered
in Lake Mead. It was probably a single boat that did this 1000 mile
jump, but now the west coast lakes can look forward to this.

I am concerned that Lake Winnebago in Oshkosh is listed as having a
zebra mussel infestation, which could quickly be spread all over
Wisconsin by seaplanes.

This is a very serious issue.

"Mike" wrote in news:yQcvk.309$jE1.265@trnddc03:

"Bertie the Bunyip" wrote in message
...
"Maxine" @_#~#@.^net wrote in
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"Bertie the Bunyip" wrote in message
...

OK, got "Maxie arrested for tinkiling in a lake" and got this:


http://www.sciencedirect.com/science...RL&_udi=B6T70-
4CCPF
Y4-1 &_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view= c&_version=1
&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=63cde644b5026d49b1b0 ab86dbbf1fa5


Naughty Maxie!


Bertie


At lease it proves you can run Google,

but it's a much better example on just another one of your many
lies.


Aww, the k00k is calling me a liar again.

I bet that hurts almost as bad as when the village idiot calls you
stupid.



It burns! it burns!



Bertie

"Gezellig" wrote in message
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On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 20:51:49 -0700 (PDT), Robert M. Gary wrote:

Right now its a major issue in California. Apparently some mussels are
spreading across the South and have now taken up in SoCal. Many in
central/northern California are very worried about it. Some lakes just
have signs about avoiding certain lakes and not putting your boat in a
strange lake unless its been out of the water for 30 days. Some
places, like Clearlake, have made it a criminal offense to put
anything in the water that has not been issued an official seal by an
inspector.

http://www.co.lake.ca.us/Government/...Prevention.htm

-Robert

http://www.gma.org/surfing/human/zebra.html

Now I understand, gruesome buggers, aren't they?

Hmmmm. More and more, when I read these sorts on things, I wonder...
did we, or the europeans, outlaw a method of control for "environmental"
reasons?

Just a little more food for thought.

Peter

On Mon, 01 Sep 2008 21:51:36 GMT, Mike wrote:

"Gezellig" wrote in message
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Who determines where you can or cannot land one?

Whoever owns the water.

On a side note, I emailed ICON and they referred me to the seaplane
directory. I asked about the "boating" aspect, that is if a license was
needed since you can, theoretically, move around the lake in it. Got a
"No" but I wonder when "No" becomes "Yes".Several lakes I would like to
fly into have adequate landing lengths but ramps would be miles away (if
you were to pull to the dry for a trailer.

Hm, come to think of it, I wonder if you could dry or wet slip an ICON?