Amidair float fly

[Xavier]

It's that time again. The Amidair float fly is this next week Saturday June 19th (Sunday is rain day) in Laval. It's a nice place for float flying. I'll be there with my Beaver and my trainer, both electrics.

Club website: http://www.amidair.qc.ca/

Directions: http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UT...ca9448133&z=13

Xavier

[Xavier]

Some pictures from Bob in 2009
http://picasaweb.google.ca/bforest6/AmidaireFloatFly?authkey=Gv1sRgCISuqdnkreedYQ#

[Mick]

Thanks for the info Xavier. I hope to be there, if I can finish my Beaver in time.

[bob forest]

Great Day, hardly any wind until 4 pm. about 10 planes. Here are the pictures.
http://picasaweb.google.ca/bforest6/AmidaireFloatFly2010#

[Mick]

Great pictures Bob, thanks.

It was a good day for flying and messing about in the water with reasonable representation from WIMAC members past and present: Bob, Xavier, Paul and I. My E-Flite Beaver 25e flew nicely, Bob captured probably my best landing of the day, well done. Bob flew his large Cub with great presence in the air and easy water handling. Paul displayed precision scale like flying with his TRex 500 on floats with a camera. Xavier had two aircraft: a Beaver and a trainer and after a minor mishap with each ended up flying the trainer with the Beaver floats which worked superbly. When is the next outing on the water?

[PaulG-rc]

It was a great day, I'm going thru all my pictures some by me and more by Lamahorse.
I will upload in a few minutes and have a video later on since thats longer to upload.

Here are 3 shots taken from some of my airborne videos.
Look at the one with the water fly at the right above the float :D what are the odds to catch that :D

[Burning Head]

Great pic Bob, there 4or5 pic see it fast with the next pic option and you will see a plane land on water:)

[PaulG-rc]

Here are pictures take the 2010 Amidair Laval Float Fly. Some pictures by me and more by Serge ( Lamahorse). The weather was great until 3pm then heavy rain and strong winds.

http://picasaweb.google.com/PaulG91/VolAquatiqueAmidair2010Laval#

[Xavier]

Great pictures Paul and Bob. Thanks.
It was a nice day indeed. To bad not more people comes to this event. It is a lot of fun to fly over water and specially doing touch and goes. You need good floats, properly secure and that's it. The easiest I found is to use a trainer. It flies slow and it behave nicely. Scale planes are nice but usually less forgiving.

Xavier

[bob forest]

Great, Great, Great Pictures, What a day. Thanks Serge (Lamahorse) for those great pics of my cub. I hope I thanked the right guy. Or were those taken by you Paul.

[PaulG-rc]

Thanks to Serge (Lamahorse) too for pictures they are really nice. :D

[PaulG-rc]

Your Cub pictures are from Serge

[PaulG-rc]

Here is one video uploaded, on that one I was following a Eagle trainer but keeping at a distance.

YouTube- eagle-poursuit.MOV

[Mick]

Great video Paul, well done.

[LAMAHORSE]

For my part,
it was my second time at that FLY-IN beach event.
I was waiting on that one this year that's for shure.

Even if the LAMA SA-315B SAR CCG stayed on her helipad platform tower
on the beach all day, I was very happy that the day was a pure succes
for us that was at that event yesterday. Sharing, laughting, jocking all together. A pure enjoying event that should be more consider by flying club members from all clubs.

Bob,
I'm glade you enjoy the photoshoot in action of your Oldy Piper CUB
that flew like a charm in circuit routine procedures. Anytime Uncle Bob ...

Maybe next year i will be able to do foward flight with my LAMA and
maybe, just maybe I'll be in next year with some float on it like my
CFI Paul that as one pair on his 500 ... It should be easy to acheive that by next year I guess.

Would be cool to have a SAR CCG LAMA SA-315B patroling the beach at that event by next year ... lol ...

Again,
thanks to the man that as made this event all possible for us to enjoy
on such a great summer week-end day ...

[Mick]

A few more pictures:

[PaulG-rc]

Serge Blanchette from Hobby Classified was there taking videos and it will be on his site soon. Should be very nice to see. :D

Nice pictures Mick, thank you

[bob forest]

Thanks Mick for the pics and also thanks for being my look out and helping to bring my plane to the water. A great day, lots of fun, and again, a big thanks to Lamahorse for those great pics, and thanks to the organization, and thanks to Paul for those videos.

[PaulG-rc]

Here is another little clip but this one is edited to be short but now I have no sound and cant be in 720 HD.
Hovering near our rescue boat.

YouTube- Float-Fly-2010-1.WMV

[Xavier]

Here is a video looking at the back of my Eagle. That is the same trainer seen in Paul's video.

YouTube- 2010_0619-Float-fly-Eagle

Xavier

[PaulG-rc]

Cool! I like the landing with the water trails :D

[Burning Head]

Great clip Xavier, I got to be there for the next float fly:)

[Vadim S]

Dont know if this one was posted or not but its very nice..

YouTube- Corona R/C Club - Float Fly 2009

[Mick]

I liked the spruce goose.

[Tarek Hassoune]

Me too should train one to save us looking in the bush for planes

[Kevin Rochon]

I like the smoking Decathlon but also those ducks...they have Daffy we used to have Taffy, hey Alberto:D


Kevin