Splash and Dash Searey Seaplane Delights                            May 12 5:08 Guest User - Request Membership Layout | Log In | Help | Videos | Site | Emails  Search:   Front Page Calendar Photos Add Photos News Add News File Cabinet Add File Cabinet History Add History * Searey Info * Add * Searey Info * Polls Add Polls Classifieds Add Classifieds Utilities Create a New Site  News View All News | Add News | Emoticons | Mark Unread Search News:      Category: Previous Item - XCOM COM This will go to the previous thread in this topic.       Favorite option: If you want this item to be marked as a favorite, click on the black heart.   Once More Under The Bridge         Next Item - Lake Jessup This will go to the next thread in this topic.    Don Maxwell - Sep 30,2009   Viewers  | Reply     This is another didn't-fly-under-the-bridge video, with Scott Peters' power plant at the end. (15 MB)       Attachments:   OnceMoreUnderTheBridge-smsm         Attachments:   OnceMoreUnderTheBridge-smsm          Kenneth Leonard - Sep 30,2009   Viewers  | Reply     Hey Don - maybe you could attach it?          Don Maxwell - Sep 30,2009   Viewers  | Reply     Patience, Ken.          Scott Peters - Oct 01,2009   Viewers  | Reply     That was so cool. Would 'Rain-X' work on those windscreens?<br />          Charles Pickett - Oct 05,2009   Viewers  | Reply     Do Not Try Rain X it has clouded a lot of bike wind shields<br /><br />Test first on a peace of the exact same as you are using          Jim Moline - Oct 06,2009   Viewers  | Reply     My bottle of Rain X says, 'do not use on perspex'<br />I use 'Plexus'          Dennis Scearce - Oct 06,2009   Viewers  | Reply     Here's what I use. Got it at SnF a couple years ago. If you also use their microfiber towel to finish it off it really clears up the windshield. I tried it on all the leading edges once. It makes the surfaces slicker than eel pooky. I believe it increased my airspeed by .000073 kts. <br /><br /><a href="http://www.autogeek.net/flitz-waxx-speed-wax.html">http://www.autogeek.net/flitz-waxx-speed-wax.html</a>          Don Maxwell - Oct 06,2009   Viewers  | Reply     Dennis, I like Plexus--but it doesn't help with beads of water. How about Flitz- Waxx? Do beads of water stay in place until you get up some airspeed, or do they tend to roll off right away? Or do they spread out and sheet on it?          Dennis Scearce - Oct 06,2009   Viewers  | Reply     Water blows off like rain-X from my car windshield. Actually, when flying through a rain shower, the windshield stays clean. Works good on skid lid face shields too. Especially if you make a habit of riding in the rain. The only problem is you have to reapply every couple of weeks - which I never do. In a feeble attempt to save the thread, I'm sure it would keep your windscreen clear as you were flying under a bridge.          Don Maxwell - Oct 06,2009   Viewers  | Reply     Oh, yeah, the bridge. Well, Dennis, if I put your waxxy stuff on my windscreen and then taxied west in displacement mode under that bridge in the late afternoon, with the sun in my face, would the water drops run down off the windscreen so I could see ahead, even though there was no wind to blow on them, or would they just sit there, shining like a million possum eyes in the headlights?          Dennis Scearce - Oct 07,2009   Viewers  | Reply     In my experience, the water typically runs off the windshield. Especially the first day I apply the wax. However, I've never taxied under any bridges in Virginia so I can't say for sure. I'd have to know the purity of the water, air density, ambient temperature and the exact date and time.          Steve Gromak - Oct 07,2009   Viewers  | Reply     ...and that's way too technical for this site, Dennis, so I'll just say I use rain X also, it works great while going under bridges in Michigan.          Dennis Scearce - Oct 07,2009   Viewers  | Reply     Yeah, but the magnetic declination is different in Michigan than in Virginia, where Don's bridges are. I'm not sure your data is applicable to this discussion.          Don Maxwell - Oct 08,2009   Viewers  | Reply     Ah! The Mackinac Straits Bridge, Steve! That's a truly magnetic one.          Steve Gromak - Oct 08,2009   Viewers  | Reply     ...it's all good Don, magnetic or not. Dennis, now I know you're getting too technical cause were between 4 &amp; 5 degrees ....that's the angle the water droplets slide off when north bound and initiating a bank to the left.          Don Maxwell - Oct 08,2009   Viewers  | Reply     Clearance under the span: 155 feet. Tsk. <a href="http://www.mackinacbridge.org/facts--figures-16/">http://www.mackinacbridge.org/facts--figures-16/</a><br /><br />          Kenneth Leonard - Oct 06,2009   Viewers  | Reply     I think this thread has officially be stolen - be very careful what you use to clean your windshield. I just spent $200 and a whole weekend replacing my foggy windshield because my daughter volunteered to clean my windshield and used a household cleaner. From now on, it's only water and a brillo pad... ; )          Don Maxwell - Oct 06,2009   Viewers  | Reply     I guess it's too late now, Ken, but Plexus 3, 2, and 1 probably could have saved your foggy lexan. (I sure hope 'water and brillo pad' is a joke.)          Daniel Paul Myers - Oct 06,2009   Viewers  | Reply     I use plexus..          Thomas Alexander Bowden - Oct 08,2009   Viewers  | Reply     Taking the thread back: Is it not legal to fly under a bridge?          Don Maxwell - Oct 08,2009   Viewers  | Reply     You could argue on the 'except when necessary for takeoff or landing' clause, but I'm not going to try it, because the FAA would almost certainly counter with a recklessness charge that would probably be hard to beat. And even when I taxi under that bridge, I make a video to prove that I wasn't flying or acting recklessly. That bridge gets a lot of vehicular traffic, it's beneath KRIC's Class C airspace, and is about 7 nm from the Richmond FSDO. There are lots of other good places to fly a SeaRey.          Jeff Arnold - Oct 08,2009   Viewers  | Reply     In Virginia on Interstate 81 at mile 105 is the bridge over the New river just below the Dam that holds Claytor Lake that I live on. Right there, near the bridge is a boat launch I can drive up and then it is a short walk to a convience store with gas and food. Upon departure, I can not take off toward the Dam as that would be like flying into a box canyon. I can't take off down stream of the bridge because there are rocks. The ONLY SAFE way to take off from that area is to begin the take off run just below the Dam so as to get airborne before the bridge and then climb out after passing it.          Don Maxwell - Oct 08,2009   Viewers  | Reply     Yes, sir. And your certificate number is...?          Jeff Arnold - Oct 08,2009   Viewers  | Reply     Oh Don, you're just being a poop. Like anybody really cares. Nobody has yet.....          Dan Nickens - Oct 09,2009   Viewers  | Reply     Don is probably just remembering that poor SeaRey pilot that flew under the Chesapeake Bay bridge. A motorist caught it on video and we haven't heard from him since.          Kenneth Leonard - Oct 08,2009   Viewers  | Reply     You don't want to fly under bridges around Tampa because you'll get wrapped like a fly in a spider web with all the fishing lines hanging from the bridges. It's a hazard to drive a boat under a bridge around here!

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