"Robert M. Gary"
I'm told the reason for this is because of the number of items a sea
plane can hit on take off and landing vs. a clean runway env.


Like the shoreline. Thud.

Granted this accident (1997) isn't a rental. Pilot/owner hired a CFI because
the plane had just been purchased - insurance requirement.

"The seaplane base operator reported that the CFI elected to use a shortened
portion of the lake for the takeoff run, and could have extended the takeoff
run by a half a mile by changing the takeoff heading by ten degrees."

We live near this seaplane base.

http://www8.landings.com/cgi-bin/nph-nntsb_connect?pass=12345&file=nntsb_199706.dat&pos =198061

http://makeashorterlink.com/?L22B1292B
(Same link as above ...wait for it)


Montblack