I'm a flight instructor myself and after watching this, I feel like I just gained like a 100 new tips on how to be calm and teach students in a better way. What a great instructor. I honestly feel like I could fly a sea plane by just watching him instruct lol.
Yes! Lou is awesome. Clearly the kind of pro I'd like to learn from and not another hours-building yahoo who views his students as stepping stones. I'd like to be like Lou someday.
"I'll stop you at 90." LMAO. Sounds like the kind of a guy who learned to fly well enough to land a P-51 on one wheel or a B-17 on one wheel and the tail wheel but flies Cubs because the view is better.
Outstanding video, the instructor is surely a consummate expert on float plane training, clear and concise guidance is of the essence, especially on landing. Thanks for sharing his expertise.
If I ever decide to take some lessons, I hope I get someone like this. Talk about calm, and knowledge/experience to burn. A true mentor. Love these videos.👍
When your instructor is surprised that you're not a commercial pilot has to be one of the highest compliments. Great vid as always Mr Chops. Thank you :)
Very cool video! I can't believe I fly into Winter Haven, FL all the time and I never go over to check this out. Flying Sea Planes in the Bahamas is on the Bucket List for me. Low and Slow = Fun Flying!
" Just put the thinggy there and go ahead hit the tree. Doesn't matter." Lol awesome video. Never heard a training pilot say - "doesn't matter" a dozen times 😂
Visited this place today Steve and had a blast in one of the J3s. Awesome fun and what a place! Land where you want 😅 FlightChops sticker still on the door too 👍
Great video, my son was an instructor at Jack Browns, then he flew Falcon 10's for a while . Now he flies Caravan Amphibs out of Ft. Lauderdale all over the Bahamas. I flew a J3 float plane out of Jack Brown's that belonged to someone else. It was my first, and was a blast. I almost bought it but couldn't at the time. I just bought a 46 J3 land plane in February. Got about 14 hours on it now, and love it.
Steve, that was totally awesome! I loved your instructor. What a mellow, gentle voice and fatherly warmth. And, some amazing flying skills, Steve. You were doing like a pro right off the bat! Amazing! Thanks!
Came back here to relive great memories from a year ago. Crazy how quickly time flies. It's been a great and successful year for all of us! Looking forward to seeing you in a week!
Excellent video, it gave the feel of actually doing the flying, I have .6 at Jack Browns, it's a Sun-N-Fun thing to do. What I really like about flying floats is that if you ever have a really bad landing all you have to do is look for the floats, the plane is right under them.
Hi Steve, I also took two hours of sea plane lessons with a Cub on floats. It was very enjoyable and I learned a lot. Some years later, a few of us bought a Republic Sea-Bee, where I accumulated about 250 hours, flying the lakes of Tamagami, Ontario. My friend had an island on the Southeast arm of Tamagami. We had permission to keep the airplane at Sudbury airport during the Summer. I had every situation any sea plane pilot would have. The thing is, I never got a seaplane rating!
What a smashing old bloke to learn from! He's about the coolest chap I've ever seen, lol. I can't imagine that anything would ever ruffle his feathers. If I'm ever in the position to learn to fly, I'll gladly move across from the UK to learn with this man I feel that I could take off and land on water already now.. He seems to put you at your ease.. yet still talks clearly and with obvious knowledge and authority in his field. Just perfect. Thanks for posting. .
That was amazing! I'm a Private Pilot myself with a little tail wheel time, and I grew up as a kid in Minnesota, watching and riding with my grandfather in his Cub and Champ, both on floats and skis. Watching this video just brought me back. Great instructor, so calm and cool! Great job and awesome flying! Love the videos. they are addicting. Keep it up!
There is something so elegant, so magical, about the way the floats come off the water. I suspect it is the way that we typically see things move through the water which creates the preconception of those objects remaining in the water: At speed, a boat hits every rising crest in the water with a resounding thud and splash. But floats on a plane, with each rising crest, the splash is diminished until there is none. Instead, an increasing gap exists between the floats and the surface. How did this happen? What has made this large, square float become so weightless that it rises above the water? I understand the science of flight, but will never fully comprehend its majesty or its magic. Thanks Steve for sharing your adventures with those of us who are for now, only flying a cubicle. "Best view in the world..." I concur whole-heartedly.
This channel is the best - I always look forward to the next video. I re-watched this one and ended up signing up for seaplane lessons to get my ASES rating. Thank you, Steve!
I went to church camp in Winter Haven Florida and every day a Piper Cub with floats would fly over head. I asked one of the camp counselors who that was and she said he's a world-famous water skier in his 80s. She said that every Easter he would drop eggs into the field next to the church and let the kids have them. I Also saw a Beech Starship fly over-head there once.
Thank you “Stevie” for sharing these float training videos with us. My Uncle Dwight flew float planes in Southeast Alaska for 30+ years. I idolized him & am determined to own a float plane before I die. I’ve always wanted to know the intricacies of float flying. You’ve satisfied a lot of that curiosity. Very enjoyable to watch. Thank you!
Steve, this is without a doubt your best video to date. I know you say you are not an instructor and are careful not to give advise but by letting the third party give the instruction you have nailed it. I felt like I was sitting in the plane with you soaking up the advise and feeling the wind with the door off. I have a set of floats in my hangar for my Challenger II advanced ultralight just waiting for me to complete my training. This video has just pushed me to get it done asap. Thanks and keep up the great work!
Never flown a float, never even been next to one, but to me there is something absolutely sexy about the look of one. May have to rethink my retirement goal of a home with its own strip, and consider a home on a lake instead. Love the older guys teaching method. Calm, cool and collected, and very positive feedback. Hope someday to get a float rating by someone just like him.
What an awesome instructor!!! I've had a bugger of an instructor before, it makes for a miserable experience, until I switched to another airport's flight school and then all was good again.
Thanks for sharing! Brings back memories... Doing turns while taxiing on step is a weird force to feel in an airplane. Flying at Jack Brown's was (and is) loads of fun!
Steve, there's no end to your flying skills i am so proud of you and I love how good you are with your family it proves your humility and again thank you for not being an egotistical arrogant individual i am learning from you and i am 40 would love to get a ppl and ferry fly
I've been going to SNF for the last four years and always make a pit stop for .5hr of dual at Jack Browns (2hrs in 4 years!). Always a great time. I noticed your new sticker on the door this year, too! Great videos keep them coming.
This makes me want to build a float plane for no good reason at all. Awesome video. What a great instructor. Reminds me of my grandpa who flew j3 way back (way way back) in the day.
Really glad you do alot of cub flying. Highly interested in geting pilots license to fly a cub. Thanks so much for the fun videos and saying what all your doin when your doing it.
To bad I missed you at sun N fun! I live in auburndale so I'm in the middle of KGIF & KLAL (saw my house in the video) so nice to see Lakeland and winter haven getting some videos from "bigger" aviation TH-camrs!
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Watching this and in a few hours is my first hour as a student pilot!! Good Job mate! Grettings from Neuquén, Argentina.
I would be freaking terrified to ever truly learn to fly, but I would also love to learn to fly. Your sharing of this kind of thing is incredibly awesome. Thank you. Great video. Holy cow, great video.
Awesome video! I completed my float endorsement shortly after i received my PPL. Its the funnest flying I've ever done. That cub looks so easy to fly!! Nice work.
Love sea plane flying. I was checked out in a 04Lake Buccaneer. I grew up in northern Minnesota where there are a ton of sea planes. Not like Alaska but probably more ham most states.
Great job Mr Chops! Very good instructional video!!! I was an instructor here at Browns AND, although I got my seaplane rating in Alaska, in my opinion, Brown's is by far the best place to get a seaplane rating.
Very nice, Steve! This actually made me feel a little emotional. My very first job as a teen was to help an Air Canada pilot friend of mine give float endorsements. My job was to help with things around the base, in exchange for unofficial lessons. My first landing on floats (or ever) was in this airplane. Thanks for this.
Nice vid.. I just did my first two Tailwheel landings in a Champ today. Totally fun. My friend is a CFI so I hope to get my tailwheel endorsement this summer. Your videos are great!
That looks like a blast! Had a similar experience this evening -- took my first tailwheel lesson! It's one thing to watch and read about the inherent instability, and quite another to experience it. Enjoy the float training sir!
I'm a flight instructor myself and after watching this, I feel like I just gained like a 100 new tips on how to be calm and teach students in a better way. What a great instructor. I honestly feel like I could fly a sea plane by just watching him instruct lol.
Right on! Glad you enjoyed it!
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I'm a wanna be and I could not agree with you more!
The skills of the sage pilot in handling instruction inputs where awesome
I took an intro flight with Lou in February, 2016. Great guy. Looking forward to going back in a few weeks to get the rating.
me too & I'm NOT even a PILOT
I'm not an instructor. but holy crap I thought the same thing, this guy is a great teacher!
He seems like such an easy going instructor. Definitely seems like the type of instructor I would be comfortable with.
Really seems like the kind of guy that you learn with! What a gentleman of aviation.
YES!
Yes! Lou is awesome. Clearly the kind of pro I'd like to learn from and not another hours-building yahoo who views his students as stepping stones. I'd like to be like Lou someday.
"I'll stop you at 90." LMAO. Sounds like the kind of a guy who learned to fly well enough to land a P-51 on one wheel or a B-17 on one wheel and the tail wheel but flies Cubs because the view is better.
GREAT Instructor!
Outstanding video, the instructor is surely a consummate expert on float plane training, clear and concise guidance is of the essence, especially on landing. Thanks for sharing his expertise.
Nice work, floats are a different animal to deal with. He was an exceptional instructor. Very calm, confident, and positive. Bravo!
If I ever decide to take some lessons, I hope I get someone like this. Talk about calm, and knowledge/experience to burn. A true mentor. Love these videos.👍
When your instructor is surprised that you're not a commercial pilot has to be one of the highest compliments. Great vid as always Mr Chops. Thank you :)
"OooOOOOO Steeveeyy!!"
Tian G best instructor, lol
J3 is a blast to fly. The old timers are a blast to fly with.
I love his calm demeanor.
+Falutin Free - I know, right? Lou is awesome!
Fantastic instructor right there!
Very cool video! I can't believe I fly into Winter Haven, FL all the time and I never go over to check this out. Flying Sea Planes in the Bahamas is on the Bucket List for me. Low and Slow = Fun Flying!
+steveo1kinevo - totally! Let's collab on that and make a solid video series about it!
+FlightChops Amen.
+FlightChops Yes yes please do.
+FlightChops
Both of you go get your float endorsements, one American style, and one Canadian style, and compare. All on camera.
+steveo1kinevo Collab in the Bahamas!
"When you get to 90 ill stop you hows that" That guy is a LEGEND!! lmao. We need more trainers like him
" Just put the thinggy there and go ahead hit the tree. Doesn't matter." Lol awesome video. Never heard a training pilot say - "doesn't matter" a dozen times 😂
Michael Robert well because it doesn’t matter lol
This kind of instructor really helps sell the training....I think this pushed me over the edge and now I want to sign up
Visited this place today Steve and had a blast in one of the J3s. Awesome fun and what a place! Land where you want 😅
FlightChops sticker still on the door too 👍
The instructor seemed like a great guy. fantastic video. thanks
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The passion and innocence in flying this makes me miss my youth and flying in FL. so much fun
Oooo Stevie.
Great video, my son was an instructor at Jack Browns, then he flew Falcon 10's for a while . Now he flies Caravan Amphibs out of Ft. Lauderdale all over the Bahamas. I flew a J3 float plane out of Jack Brown's that belonged to someone else. It was my first, and was a blast. I almost bought it but couldn't at the time. I just bought a 46 J3 land plane in February. Got about 14 hours on it now, and love it.
This CFI is so comforting to listen to.
GREAT INSTRUCTOR ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ He Talks on Everything You Have to DO 👏👏👏👏👏
Definitely one of my absolute favorite videos! Thank you for letting me ride along:)
Steve, that was totally awesome! I loved your instructor. What a mellow, gentle voice and fatherly warmth. And, some amazing flying skills, Steve. You were doing like a pro right off the bat! Amazing! Thanks!
I loved how flying was second nature to him, and just couldn't you feel the love? The most heartwarming flying video I've seen to date!
Came back here to relive great memories from a year ago. Crazy how quickly time flies. It's been a great and successful year for all of us! Looking forward to seeing you in a week!
Excellent video, it gave the feel of actually doing the flying, I have .6 at Jack Browns, it's a Sun-N-Fun thing to do. What I really like about flying floats is that if you ever have a really bad landing all you have to do is look for the floats, the plane is right under them.
Hi Steve, I also took two hours of sea plane lessons with a Cub on floats. It was very enjoyable and I learned a lot. Some years later, a few of us bought a Republic Sea-Bee, where I accumulated about 250 hours, flying the lakes of Tamagami, Ontario. My friend had an island on the Southeast arm of Tamagami. We had permission to keep the airplane at Sudbury airport during the Summer. I had every situation any sea plane pilot would have. The thing is, I never got a seaplane rating!
What a smashing old bloke to learn from!
He's about the coolest chap I've ever seen, lol. I can't imagine that anything would ever ruffle his feathers.
If I'm ever in the position to learn to fly, I'll gladly move across from the UK to learn with this man
I feel that I could take off and land on water already now..
He seems to put you at your ease.. yet still talks clearly and with obvious knowledge and authority in his field.
Just perfect.
Thanks for posting.
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That was amazing! I'm a Private Pilot myself with a little tail wheel time, and I grew up as a kid in Minnesota, watching and riding with my grandfather in his Cub and Champ, both on floats and skis. Watching this video just brought me back. Great instructor, so calm and cool! Great job and awesome flying! Love the videos. they are addicting. Keep it up!
I love how Lou is a very relaxed, affirming, and confident. He must have calmed your nerves.
There is something so elegant, so magical, about the way the floats come off the water. I suspect it is the way that we typically see things move through the water which creates the preconception of those objects remaining in the water: At speed, a boat hits every rising crest in the water with a resounding thud and splash. But floats on a plane, with each rising crest, the splash is diminished until there is none. Instead, an increasing gap exists between the floats and the surface. How did this happen? What has made this large, square float become so weightless that it rises above the water?
I understand the science of flight, but will never fully comprehend its majesty or its magic. Thanks Steve for sharing your adventures with those of us who are for now, only flying a cubicle. "Best view in the world..." I concur whole-heartedly.
This channel is the best - I always look forward to the next video. I re-watched this one and ended up signing up for seaplane lessons to get my ASES rating. Thank you, Steve!
I went to church camp in Winter Haven Florida and every day a Piper Cub with floats would fly over head. I asked one of the camp counselors who that was and she said he's a world-famous water skier in his 80s. She said that every Easter he would drop eggs into the field next to the church and let the kids have them.
I Also saw a Beech Starship fly over-head there once.
Thank you “Stevie” for sharing these float training videos with us. My Uncle Dwight flew float planes in Southeast Alaska for 30+ years. I idolized him & am determined to own a float plane before I die. I’ve always wanted to know the intricacies of float flying. You’ve satisfied a lot of that curiosity. Very enjoyable to watch. Thank you!
Most laid back flight instructor ever. Nice
Steve, this is without a doubt your best video to date. I know you say you are not an instructor and are careful not to give advise but by letting the third party give the instruction you have nailed it. I felt like I was sitting in the plane with you soaking up the advise and feeling the wind with the door off. I have a set of floats in my hangar for my Challenger II advanced ultralight just waiting for me to complete my training. This video has just pushed me to get it done asap. Thanks and keep up the great work!
Great job Steve. Always impressing your instructors.
Love this video. Fantastic instructor. He is the standard. Thanks for sharing!
A joy to watch. Thank you for taking us along.
This instructor just taught us all how to fly a float plane in a few minutes. Great video.
Freaking AWESOME video - now I want to move down to FL and fly with Lou everyday - what a great voice/demeanor etc.
Hey Chops, this was SO neat to watch! Your instructor was very calm & effective in showing you how to do it, too!
Definitely one of the best videos on TH-cam this is incredible
+stu nicks - glad you enjoyed it!
Pretty good Chops...
Did my ATP MES at Flagler Beach in 1994..
Then my COM MES at Philadelphia Seaplane Base in 1995...
What Great a Fun... 😺🙀
Never flown a float, never even been next to one, but to me there is something absolutely sexy about the look of one. May have to rethink my retirement goal of a home with its own strip, and consider a home on a lake instead.
Love the older guys teaching method. Calm, cool and collected, and very positive feedback. Hope someday to get a float rating by someone just like him.
Very nicely done. Love your instructor. Very chilled but very skilled.
I've always thought water landings would be really fun. Now all I need is one of them new Icon A5's, best of both worlds.
Another A+ video Steve.
That was such a great video! The pilot reminded me of my wife's grandpa who had been a brush pilot in Alaska. Very cool.
What an awesome instructor!!! I've had a bugger of an instructor before, it makes for a miserable experience, until I switched to another airport's flight school and then all was good again.
The intro the seaplane flying is excellent! Keep up the great work.
Thanks for sharing! Brings back memories... Doing turns while taxiing on step is a weird force to feel in an airplane. Flying at Jack Brown's was (and is) loads of fun!
Steve, there's no end to your flying skills i am so proud of you and I love how good you are with your family it proves your humility and again thank you for not being an egotistical arrogant individual i am learning from you and i am 40 would love to get a ppl and ferry fly
Lou seems like such a charismatic man! Hard not to like him.
This was enjoyable to watch. Would be fun to fly with this guy. Good job on the flying chops.
That looked like awesome fun Steve....what a wonderful gentle instructor!
I've been going to SNF for the last four years and always make a pit stop for .5hr of dual at Jack Browns (2hrs in 4 years!). Always a great time. I noticed your new sticker on the door this year, too!
Great videos keep them coming.
awesome tradition!
What a fantastic instructor, great video! Thanks.
This makes me want to build a float plane for no good reason at all. Awesome video. What a great instructor. Reminds me of my grandpa who flew j3 way back (way way back) in the day.
My first J-3 float time was at Oshkosh when I was 14. Only 25 years ago. Best flying I have ever done.
Heckuva day! Really good work. He's a great instructor too.
This is the instructor I want for my float rating, excellent video as always. Thank you very much for sharing.
Really glad you do alot of cub flying. Highly interested in geting pilots license to fly a cub. Thanks so much for the fun videos and saying what all your doin when your doing it.
Wow, Lou sounds like an incredible instructor. Great knowledge combined with humor and praise! BTW, caught the Steveo1 cameo at :33.....nice!
To bad I missed you at sun N fun! I live in auburndale so I'm in the middle of KGIF & KLAL (saw my house in the video) so nice to see Lakeland and winter haven getting some videos from "bigger" aviation TH-camrs!
Watching this and in a few hours is my first hour as a student pilot!!
Good Job mate! Grettings from Neuquén, Argentina.
Great video. It doesn't get much better than float flying.
"You said something about a patch for me"
Good one and great context Steve!
Well done Steve! Makes we wanna go jump into a Cub on floats!
Thrilling man! What a video! Thanks for sharing such an experience. He is a good instructor.
You have a beautiful j3!
I would be freaking terrified to ever truly learn to fly, but I would also love to learn to fly. Your sharing of this kind of thing is incredibly awesome. Thank you. Great video. Holy cow, great video.
I bet JP the Candourist would have really enjoyed these flights !! Nice work Steve !!
Awesome video with great shots and that pilot is so old school "light up cigarette"
Stevie! You have a talent in finding the best instructors. Really enjoyed this video. Glass landings sound terrifying.
Awesome video! I completed my float endorsement shortly after i received my PPL. Its the funnest flying I've ever done. That cub looks so easy to fly!! Nice work.
awesome video, reminds me of flying with my dad in a j-3 when i was a kid, brings back some great memories. thank you !
I love how calm the instructor is.
He was so awesome.
We lost him recently unfortunately.
@@FlightChops I'm so sorry!!! Seemed like a genuine person. Prayers
Great video! It was like being there, in your shoes, with your CFI!
Well done on this one Steve!
I am sooooo doing my float rating this summer ! Thanks for the awesome video Steve.
Really nice job from both you and your instructor.
Awesome!
Got my ppl at harvs air last week! Float training is my summer goal!
Great vid!
Love sea plane flying. I was checked out in a 04Lake Buccaneer. I grew up in northern Minnesota where there are a ton of sea planes. Not like Alaska but probably more ham most states.
Fantastic video. Great instructor and what a great camera platform a float-Cub is!
Great job and thanks for sharing this awesome video
Thanks for sharing Steve awesome taste of float plane technique.
What a fantastic instructor! Great video.
That looks like a blast Steve! Well done!
Great job Mr Chops! Very good instructional video!!! I was an instructor here at Browns AND, although I got my seaplane rating in Alaska, in my opinion, Brown's is by far the best place to get a seaplane rating.
Very nice, Steve! This actually made me feel a little emotional. My very first job as a teen was to help an Air Canada pilot friend of mine give float endorsements. My job was to help with things around the base, in exchange for unofficial lessons. My first landing on floats (or ever) was in this airplane. Thanks for this.
Looks like you two were having one helluva time! Your buddy is a great instructor. I think I may just head out to Florida and get my sea plane rating!
I'm going to Jack's seaplane base to do the sea plane add on tomorrow. I'm glad I was able to get an idea of what to expect. Thanks for the video!
Awesome! Enjoy it!
Ah, good old N32768. The very plane I got my SES rating on almost 6 years ago. I miss float flying in Florida.
Very nice flying and video, Steve!
Great Instructor!!! and great video as always!!!!!
Man, you are getting better on every video! Great job and great videos. Love them
Nice video it was great seeing you at sun n fun.
+Little Cube Flight - cool and thanks!
Nice vid.. I just did my first two Tailwheel landings in a Champ today. Totally fun. My friend is a CFI so I hope to get my tailwheel endorsement this summer. Your videos are great!
That looks like a blast! Had a similar experience this evening -- took my first tailwheel lesson! It's one thing to watch and read about the inherent instability, and quite another to experience it. Enjoy the float training sir!