Water landing on Meade Floats

Tad Olmsted · Post by **Tad Olmsted** » Sun Jul 17, 2011 9:42 am

Check out our water landing in Sebring this week end. This is the first set of Meade 1430 amphibious floats installed on a Jabiru J230.

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J230 Lake Jackson

ibgarrett · Post by **ibgarrett** » Mon Jul 18, 2011 10:10 am

You mean this one? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Yoa1kwG-1A

Definitely smooth...

tadel001 · Post by **tadel001** » Mon Jul 18, 2011 2:48 pm

Having not flown much with floats, the end seems a little shaky with the aircraft rocking back far on the floats. Is that typical of straight float aircraft?

zaitcev · Post by **zaitcev** » Tue Jul 19, 2011 5:58 pm

I was sure he did it on purpose in order to slow down.

Tad Olmsted · Post by **Tad Olmsted** » Wed Jul 27, 2011 1:29 pm

We did a few touch and goes. This was the very first full stop. The pilot meant to hold it back.