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Cover Story: Best-in-show Beaver

Mark Stevens has a problem, one that most of us would unselfishly offer to take off his hands to, you know, lighten his burden. The problem? Every day Mark is faced with a question: What am I going to fly today? Will it be a Super Cub on tundra tires? How about a Cessna 185 on amphibious PK floats? Or, the ultimate, a de Havilland Beaver on Wipline amphibs? Tough choice, but because it is a Beaver and even better, a Beaver on floats, it usually rises to the top of the list.

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Typed in the Turbine Mallard

Now that the era of the large flying boat is over there aren’t many seaplanes that require a type rating. For the most part, water flying is done with small airplanes while the big ones land on pavement. The Mallard is one of the rare airplanes that has a place in both worlds. And this Mallard type rating would be special because it was done in an example powered by Pratt & Whitney PT6 turboprop engines.

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Glassy Water Patience

Very few seaplane pilots have the opportunity to experience glassy water landings during initial training. My learning to fly a seaplane on the Columbia River precluded any chance of glassy water training. If you are new to the challenge of glassy water landings, work up to it by practicing the appropriate techniques in lightly rippled conditions. This will give you the confidence of knowing you can see the surface and execute a normal water landing as needed.

Seaplane pilots and non-pilots that are fans of seaplanes, if you are not getting Water Flying magazine you are missing out on the only full color magazine dedicated to covering the entire seaplane community from Alaska to Florida from Australia to Lake Como, Italy and all points in between.

While most of the readers of Water Flying are seaplane rated pilots, an ever increasing number of non-pilot fans of seaplanes are receiving the magazine by joining the Seaplane Pilots Association.

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