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Old 04-27-2015, 03:45 PM   #62
Marin
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It would take me far to long to explain why glassy water is so dangerous to a seaplane pilot. Not once you're on it but landing on it and taking off from it. Landing is the far more potentially dangerous situation, but it can get a pilot in trouble when taking off with a heavy load.

Marin,

Is the danger due to not being able see where the sky ends and water begins?
No, it's got nothing to do with that. I took the photo that accompanied my earlier post while I was on final approach to the lake. Based on what you see in the photo, how high was I off the water when I snapped the photo? Twenty-five feet, fifty feet, seventy five feet, or a hundred feet?

PS-- Saw I had the photo on this computer so here it is again.
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