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Feb 16th, 2003 at 12:17pm

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Anyone know a good place to take-off with the Grand Caravan (amphibian) from water? The only places i can find is on land.....
 
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Reply #1 - Feb 16th, 2003 at 12:40pm

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There are a couple of spots off Key West.

 
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Reply #2 - Feb 16th, 2003 at 12:46pm

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Try Kissimmee airport (KISM) on the W.coast of the USA, apparently it always gives a wet start, failing that I can send you some files for wet starts.

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Reply #3 - Feb 16th, 2003 at 2:27pm
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Grin Grin GrinI use amphibs/floats a lot but have downloaded a number of floatplane bases avail here on SimV.  Pretty awesome scenery too.  But if youre having trouble finding water takeoffs (there is one in New York City (cant remember the name of it but its there/I can find it and let you know) why not take off from runway and fly to a dock, there's lots in most scenery.  I love sittin in the water lookin at the scenery from offshore.
Splash Grin Grin Grin  That new jet amphib just came out, a real fun plane to fly especially water landing  lol Grin  Check those float plane bases   very nice!!
 
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Reply #4 - Feb 16th, 2003 at 2:42pm
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Grin  Dr Who - Go to New York City (NY Skyports Inc) that will put you on the water in downtown New York.  Lots of water and bridges Grin Grin Grin
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Reply #5 - Feb 16th, 2003 at 4:40pm

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There is one next to or close to the Port of Miami.

Name: Miami (X44)

Runways: SE and NW.

If you take-off facing NW, then you'll notice that there is a gap between a set of buildings wide enough for you to fly through.

Taking-off is one thing, but landing is a different story. You can't see the runway since it's only water. You'll have to rely on GPS to find it and the there is no ILS (but there is a VOR station nearby).
 
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Reply #6 - Feb 16th, 2003 at 5:49pm

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Anywhere you can find water you can land with a seaplane Grin
 
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Reply #7 - Feb 17th, 2003 at 1:27pm

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Go to "Library", click "view help topics", "flying a floatplane", "water runways". There's probably 100 or more water takeoff locations listed.
 

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Reply #8 - Feb 17th, 2003 at 1:41pm
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GrinThanks TJ, you just opened up a whole new world for me. Grin Grin Grin
 
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Reply #9 - Feb 17th, 2003 at 2:11pm

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Look for the runway that have bearings like NW or SW or something like that, as runway names, about 5 times out of 10 they're are spots on water, I've only been to a few of them so I don't know if that's what it's like.

Give it a try.

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Reply #10 - Feb 17th, 2003 at 2:37pm

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Just go up to Alaska, there are literally hundreds of chalenging little lakes to land on
 
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Reply #11 - Feb 17th, 2003 at 5:13pm

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Anchorage Alaska has a water runway. Wink
 

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Reply #12 - Feb 17th, 2003 at 9:10pm
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GrinYes, just did it Lake Hood (LHD) Anchorage - just at dusk, moon comin' up, sun goin' down and a water take-off.  Beautiful Scenery and for mountain flyin' Bold Anchorage , Awesome!!!! Try takin' off from Bold in that new amphib jet  lol Grin Grin Grin
 
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Reply #13 - Feb 18th, 2003 at 11:42pm

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I am new to the forums, so bear with me till I figure all this out, but I am having problems installing other aircraft, I followed the readme.txt to the letter but they are not showing up in my list of planes.  I am always looking for new water capable planes....how bout a Dehavilland-8 on floats ?

thanks for your help !
 
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Reply #14 - Feb 19th, 2003 at 12:23am

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I am new to the forums, so bear with me till I figure all this out, but I am having problems installing other aircraft, I followed the readme.txt to the letter but they are not showing up in my list of planes.  I am always looking for new water capable planes....how bout a Dehavilland-8 on floats ?

thanks for your help !


Welcome to the forums Wink

Here's a tutorial on installing aircraft into the simulator:
http://www.simviation.com/acinstall.htm

I don't know of any amphibius Dehaviland 8s for download, but there are a couple new DHC-6 Twin Otter Amphibian packages here: http://www.simviation.com/fs2002props39.htm

-Andrew
 
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