How slatted wings improves the performance of short takeoff and landing of a float plane.
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- This is a video about the Levitation 4 aircraft from Tapanee Aviation, and landing this STOL (short takeoff and landing) airplane on the beautiful lakes of northern Canada. And fishing those lakes for walleye and pike. Including clips of the beautiful fall colors from the air.
This video also demonstrates the characteristics of the Levitation 4 aircraft, and why it has such superior performance, and how this full sized aircraft can get off the ground and land with in a 100 feet.
All the design features of a Fiesler Storch with a modern low maintenance quality. Looks like a real dream machine.
Thanks for the comment, It is a dream to fly.
The shine is brilliant! Beautiful plane!
Thank you very much, Helaine did a great job shining it up. And I love it.
Easy-to-follow and easy-to-understand explanation of slats. My compliments. Thank you.
Thank you very much, very nice compliments, I am happy that you enjoyed it.
WOW!! Now that was a glassy water landing if I've ever seen one. Those colors are just amazing!!
Thank you very much, It was a lot fun filming those shots.
What a beautiful aircraft! I wanted to become a private pilot when I was young. Ended up I became a hang glider pilot - which was more affordable - way back in 1975 when I was 19 years old. I'm 67 now and still fly HGs. But when I see videos like this I wish I'd gotten a private pilot's rating. I'd love to be doing what you are doing! Love the mink thief story! LOL BTW - I live very close to where Glen Curtis invented the "flying boat". He did that in Hammondsport, NY.
Thank you very much, I just got my pilots license last year, I was 65 it's not too late. I really couldn't afford it when I was younger ether, or I would have done it a long time ago.
I watched your video flying the hang glider, that was really cool and a bit scary, particularly the takeoff just over the trees. I did a bit of hang gliding when I was young back in the early 80's. Before my frontal lobe had developed. 😅 It was fun, and you looked like you were having a lot of fun in your video.
Take care and thanks for commenting.
Scott
Beautiful country and plane. Thanks for posting.
Thank you very much.
That IS a nifty little aircraft❗️
My late father owned an old Stinson FHKT. We spent many hours flying the north-country. He would be thrilled to watch this well done video.
Thank you very much. We were having a lot of fun filming and working with Premiere to produce it, and I was glad to share it. My friend Dave up at Spy Lake owns a Stinson from 1947, it's a pretty cool aircraft.
@@Scotts_Outdoor_Channel { Stinson Station Wagon, had a fixed wing-slot, reg. C-FHKT, tail dragger, could be vintage ‘47.?
That is one stunningly gorgeous airplane. A thing to be very proud of. I am jealous of the beautiful scenery too.
Thank you very much! I'm glad you enjoyed it, it was a lot of fun to film & make. Are you a fellow pilot?
Beautiful time of year so much nicer from the air, and that is one beautiful looking airoplane
Thank you very much. We were having a lot of fun and I was glad to share it.
Amazing ❤️ great video!! Can't wait for more!!
Thank you so much!!
Your video is spectacular. Grew up in Manitoba and had a cottage in Ontario. Fell in love with float panes. Great aircraft. You are living my dream.
Thank you very much, where was your cottage? I have a cottage in Sauble Beach and I used to hang out with a guy that lived in Manitoba when I was young, back in the 60s and 70s.
@@Scotts_Outdoor_Channel Cottage was at Malachi along the CN main line about 50 mi west of Kenora.
I looked up Malachi, it is pretty remote, and hard to get to, I bet the fishing was really good. It must have been a great summer place.
@@Scotts_Outdoor_Channel I was raised in Wpg. and got there by train as there were no roads. That has changed. I haven't been back in 30 years and now reside in Panama central america.
Really nice airplane, lovely scenery and fun video. You captured it well. Greetings from CNY3 -ish.
Thanks for the nice comments, it was my first real video production and I have gotten a very positive response from it. Are you a fellow pilot flying out of Collingwood?
Great job on the video Scott. Can’t wait till we get out again.
Thanks Marc.
Very interesting video about a nice airplane. Thank you.
Thank you for your compliment, I am glad you liked it. It was a lot of fun making it.
Miss being able to fly into back lakes with friends
Looks like a blast to fly! I put VG’s on my 0235 champ and it seems to help a bit as well.
How well do the VG's work for you, I have always been interested in them, and wondered if they would add to my lift performance.
Wow! Stunning Levitation. Have always been a fan of the Pegazair. Did not know about the Levitation however. Miss Alaine did a magnificent job building a beautiful aircraft. You are so fortunate to be able to enjoy such a beautiful area in which to experience both aviation and the great outdoors.
Thank you very much, very nice compliments.
Great video. Wonderful seeing you share it with the girls. I'm excited to see Jakes reaction and better yet, your wife's!😆
I have tried to get Jake up for a flight but he never follows through with the plan. Karen has been up a number of times, she has enjoyed it for the most part. She was a bit nervous about going to Killarney lake because i told her there was no cell service. I told her we could walk out if we had to, but she saw the mountains all around it and though it would be impossible. But once she got there she was blown away by the beauty of the place and forgot all about her worries of a breakdown.
Stunnngly beautiful video!!! WOW!!
Thank you very much! I'm glad you enjoyed it, it was a lot of fun to film & make.
very cool
Great stuff. We keep a champ on floats and skis in southern georgian bay. building a 1971 7gcbc right now also.
Is that an American Champ? that's cool, I would like to see that some time.
I don't know what cameras you were using but man, they captured some incredible colors.
They were Go Pro 10s and Go Pro 3 on the wing. Adobe Premiere was used for the editing and color correction.
beautiful plane and that scenery holy cow thats a beautiful place!!
Thank you for the nice comment, it really is a beautiful country. Most people don’t take the time to appreciate the north country in Canada.
Very interesting video
Thanks for watching
So cool. Excellent production.
Thank you very much. We were having a lot of fun filming and working with Premiere to produce it, and I was glad to share it.
Otherwise, good video, voice, music mix.......... tyvm
Glad you enjoyed it
If my memory is correct a company called Handley Page designed these flaps in the 1920s
I think you are right about that. So you live in New York state? Do you fly?
VERY NICE!!!
Thank you very much
Great video ! thanks for sharing , the lévitation 4 is by far my favorite airplane , and after it is the pegazair
Thank you very much, that’s a really nice compliment coming from a professional like you. I have watched a lot of your videos in the past and really like them. Obviously I love the back country as you do. You are right about the Pegazair and the Levitation been the same plane, there is a link between the two aircraft designers USA and Canada, I am not sure what it is but I know they are linked. Thanks again for your input.
Scott
@@Scotts_Outdoor_Channel Both are from Tapanee Aviation , the Pégazair and the Lévitation.
You were right Tapanee owns both companies Levitation and Pegazair. I was looking at your videos, I realized I had thought you were a different Bush pilot TH-camr. I see it looks like you have both Levitation and Pegazair. As well as really cute kids, good for you. Where is the 85 acres you bought, it looks like nice country?
WoW,Nice video and your explication of your aircraft is wonderful,tanks for this,appreciate!
Thank you very much
Fantastic aircraft and video.
Glad you enjoyed it
Awesome video, actually.
Thank you very much
Beautiful ! Wonderful ! Thanks.
Thank you very much for the kind word.
Beautiful aircraft!
Thank you very much, I agree.😎
Enjoyed this very much, thanks...
Thanks for listening and commenting. I am glad you enjoyed it, my next video is almost ready to upload. It’s about short takeoffs and landings in a winding river. Check it out.
Great Airplane, nice video, my own Kitfox floatplane has spent the odd afternoon tied to that very dock you are at, as I live not 10 minutes by air away on Geirgian Bay.
Hey thanks, I looked up the Kitfox, it looks really cool, I would love to have a closer look at it. Do you put wheels (tail drager) on it in the winter?
@@Scotts_Outdoor_Channel Actually I just took it off the Skiis, Ski fly in Feb and March, it is a tail dragger on skiis.
@@seraleelee Wow that sounds like a lot of fun, I think I am going to buy ski’s for my plane next year. My plane is setup as a tricycle by the first owner. I think for skis, it would be better to put it back to a tail dragger.
Nice channel
Thank you very much
How beautiful!
Thank you very much
Nice video and plane I had not heard of. Starting the research now. Hopefully there are amphib floats available. Not familiar with Dynon but does it ever show zero airspeed? TIA
I don't think the Dynon ever shows zero but it is fairly accurate when flying and compared to the ground speed on Foreflight.
Like everything there is a cost. Slats allow the wing to continue operating at AoAs higher than a similar unslatted wing. So to fully exploit them you need to increase your ground attitude so that your aircraft can achieve a higher AoA in the flare without hitting tail first. You might also need more tail authority to get to the higher max AoA. On some float planes you won’t be able to rotate to an AoA that fully utilizes the maximum lift provided by the slats. The major downside to slats is drag. They really slow you down if they are not retractable. If you look at a zenith 701 it can get off after a ridiculous takeoff roll, but you won’t be getting anywhere fast. For every 5 mph you lower your stall speed by adding aerodynamic devices or wing area you pay a big penalty in terms of cruise speed. So you need to ask yourself do I really need to takeoff on a 50 ft gravel bar that one time (maybe you do?) and am I willing to pay 10 kts in cruise on every flight to do it. In my view an unslatted wing on say a super cub or a husky can make for a better all around airplane but I’m not an outdoorsman or a fisherman. we all see things differently
This is a really good comment, The slats do retract while in cruise, but this is not a really fast aircraft. I usually cruise around 90 knots, sometimes 100 but no faster than that. I would like to fly faster most of the time. Although that is a fairly common speed for this class of aircraft. It is bigger then a Cessna 172 and has more power and useful load but the speed is the same more or less. But that's where the comparison ends. I put wheels on in the winter, and I get off the ground between 100 and 200 feet, and landing in similar distances. This doesn't make much difference at an airport, but on a field or a small lake it is a big advantage. I spend most of the summer landing on small remote lakes, so it is important to me. But it could take 2 or 3 hours to get from southern Ontario to northern Ontario, and that"s a drag for sure. I was looking at a Seawind, it's pretty fast. but it needs a lot bigger lake to land in.
Anyway your comment got me thinking a bit. You should check out the video that I put out, it's all about stol landing and takeoffs. th-cam.com/video/VlTBr66W49s/w-d-xo.html
Great plane, and great place to be flying!! Do you put it on skis for the winter?
I will be looking into skis for next winter, I think that would be a lot of fun.
Fun video, interesting Airplane !!
Cheers from C-GZPL
Thanks for the compliments Lindsay. The Bushmaster is a really nice plane, where do you fly out of? I would love to see it some time.
@Scott's Outdoor Channel hello Scott, I fly out of Eastern Ontario.
An hour drive East of Ottawa.
I have home strip, it's very short 600'
And boxed in, I hope to be moving the plane in the late spring to a friend's hone strip. It's getting harder to be comfortable coming and going
From my place. If I am not flying 3/4 tines a week 600 feet short
With a tail wind , which I have most of the time.
I would be very uncomfortable with that as well especially since it is boxed in, trees I'm assuming. I would want about 1000' on wheels rotation @ 35 kn and 1500' on the water rotation @ 47 kn. I know I can do it with less especially on wheels, but watching the trees getting closer gives me the willies.
Bravo very clean airplane
Thanks a lot!
nice to hear you ,, music ruins the vid
awesome video , im a float plane pilot as well , fly out of Lacute quebec
Thank you very much, are you flying amfib out of CSE4 or straight floats?
@@Scotts_Outdoor_Channel I fly amphibious ,
I would love to fly with you this summer , i fly American Champion Scout 200 HP , can i add photo to reply
That's a nice plane, it looks like it has a descent useful load. Flying together sounds like a great idea, I have some trips planned to Quebec this year, we should get together. Are you a fisherman? And do you have some favorite lakes you go to?
Correction: pickerel is not the Walleye, Sauger, Perch family. Google. :The main difference between walleye and pickerel is that walleye is from the perch family, while pickerel belongs to the pike family. Additionally, walleyes have an olive or gold color, while pickerels are primarily olive with a somewhat greenish tint.
I stand corrected, all these years Americans have come to Canada to fish with us and have called the fish Walleye and we have always called them Pickerel. When I read your comment, I looked it up, and this is what I found on Google; Both are freshwater fishes found in Canada and North America. In Canada, the walleye is locally called a pickerel, which adds to the confusion. However, although the walleye may be called pickerel in some parts of Canada, walleye and pickerel are not the same fish.... So as you can see my confusion, we in Canada have been calling Walleye Pickerel all of my lifetime anyway. From the pictures on the article, the fish I have been catching are Walleye and not Pickerel.
So thank you, I will not be calling them Walleye any longer.
Wow those unprotected terminals on that battery in storage is a no go. Anything metal shorting it out is red hot or burning, a battery box is in order sir.
Excellent aircraft by the way, well equipped!
You are quite right thanks for the advice.
Beautiful. I would love to know where you mounted your camera, a GoPro I assume?
Thank you, yes they are GoPros, 1 was mounted on the front of the float and the other one was mounted under the wing.
Do you have extended tanks or do they all have 11 hours of flight time?
Hey Jason
there are 2 wing tanks and 2 belly tanks, for a total of 79 US gallons. At 7 or 8 gallons per hour, I could possibly get 11 hours. But I would always be conservative and plan for 9 hours and a good reserve.
Thanks for comenting.
Thanks for commenting
This is a pilot and a fisherman's dream job... I wonder if you can work for a touring company or something that will fly people in to fish in such remote areas.
I would need a commercial license to do that and then it wouldn't be a hobby anymore. 😏
Hi I am Mark for Anglesey 😰😱
Hmm... Those slats work just like those on the Antonov An-2 Colt!
That is an interesting aircraft, I had not seen that one before. Looks like a tough bird. The Zenith Aircraft company makes a plane much like mine, but much lighter, can't care the weight I do.
18:52 if you're using a GoPro 7 or higher to capture this audio... Turn off "quick capture" and also remove the internal battery and use an external battery pack (one like you'd use to recharge a cell phone on the go) and the audio will sound a lot better... It took me like 20 flights and an entire instrument rating to figure this out with my GoPro 7. lol.
That's great info, I will check that out, at least for the inside cameras, that might be a bit tricky for the outside cameras. I would like to power them with a battery that last longer. The GoPros are not that reliable.
@@Scotts_Outdoor_Channel I forgot to say the battery trick only works when you have an external mic hooked up to it, like your headset at 18:52. The outside cameras won't need a mic hooked up of course. I don't know how you could get an outside camera to last longer using an external battery. Haha. That would require the camera and the battery to be mounted somewhere on the outside...
Nice, I enjoyed that. South on.
Thank you very much. We were having a lot of fun and I was glad to share it.
@Scotts_Outdoor_Channel looking to do get back to the North, been a good 20 yrs. Having a plane like that has always been a dream, 4x4 pickup camper for now, all the best 🇨🇦.
why'd the lady sell the plane????
I believe she felt that she was too old, but I am not sure, she built it in 2011 and only had 213 hours on it when she sold it to me. I have 351 on it now, that's 135 in a year and a bit, and I didn't fly much this winter, so I might fly a fair bit but she didn't fly hardly at all.
I really liked that segment at the end where we could see both the pilot view and the view of the floats as you settled back onto the water!
Thanks for sharing but please don't post anymore videos like this...I don't think I can stand the intense feelings of envy and jealousy!!
LOL I am glad you liked it, but sorry I can't promise to not post anymore videos. As a mater of fact, I plan to post a new one tomorrow, and you may like it because all the shots include the wing view showing the plane settling down on the water.
Aircraft with slats have slatted wings, not slated wings.
I didn't say I knew how to spell, I just know how to fly an airplane and a few other things.🙃