Lecture 16: Seaplanes

MIT 16.687 Private Pilot Ground School, IAP 2019
Instructor: Philip Greenspun, Tina Srivastava
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This lecture introduced different types of seaplanes.
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0:00 Introduction
0:21 Boats or Floats
0:54 Bush Pilot Wisdom
2:44 Moosehead fly-in every Sept
3:19 Get on the Step
4:20 Crosswind Landing
5:10 Glassy Water Landing
6:37 Docking/Beaching
8:00 Bad things to do in a Seaplane
13:57 Seaplane Pilot Skills
14:38 Land vs. Sea
15:43 830.2 - Definitions
15:57 830.5 - Immediate Notification
16:49 Bottom Line
20:38 Light Sport flying boats
22:26 Questions?

[@lifeinthematrix9]

Believe it or not, landing in the sea is NOT an impossible thing to do as the person says in the lecture. In fact, the bulk of my seaplane flying has been on open water in the sea in the US, places around SE Asia and Maldives which has the World's largest seaplane operations between the islands and 100% of those flights are on the sea, no rivers or lakes there. Landing in seastate 1 or with 1 foot waves is easy, it is more challening with 2 and 3 sea states but that's what we teach and get pilots real time experience to operate in difficult conditions. I'm a commercial seaplane pilot since 2013 and commercial airplane pilot with pistons, turboprops and jets experience since 1986, and as an NTSB expert witness to a boat hull amphibian crash, I was experiencing some cringe moments watching this class. This is a course that is best taught by someone who has real seaplane experience on float and boat hull amphibians.

[@brucevilla]

Thanks for Uploading.

[@FallLineJP]

If helicopters are the safer alternative to whatever you happen to be doing, you have you ask yourself a few tough questions 🤓😅

[@DeeSnow97]

hope you reported that burn to the NTSB