Splash and Dash Searey Seaplane Delights                            Apr 28 4:44 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: 118,Flying Stuff Previous Item - The SeaReys Point of view 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.   SeaWind Takeoff         Next Item - SeaRey point of view Pic #2 This will go to the next thread in this topic.    Don Maxwell - Apr 18,2010   Viewers  | Reply     A Seawind was at Lake Agnes for the Sun-n-Fun seaplane event: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9JDkLVD7YA">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9JDkLVD7YA</a>          David Myers - Apr 19,2010   Viewers  | Reply     looks like a pain in the ass ill take my searey any day...          Troy iRMT Heavy Maint. Enriquez - May 15,2010   Viewers  | Reply     that was a step taxi, right? my laptop battery died before the end of the video.          Jeff Arnold - Apr 19,2010   Viewers  | Reply     If you assume linear acceleration to 85 mph for lift off, then 48 seconds would cover nearly 3000 feet, and that was into about a 15 knot head wind.          Kenneth Leonard - Apr 19,2010   Viewers  | Reply     I spoke with a nice lady at SNF last week who said she and one other person are the only folks she knows who have significant hours in the Seawind and he trained her. According to her: 'Most pilots are intimidated by the plane, even after they get type specific training'. After watching that takeoff, I can certainly imagine why.          Paul Hewitt - Apr 21,2010   Viewers  | Reply     This one seems to go OK but a little hard to fit into...<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DE-FTls_MxU&feature=related">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DE-FTls_MxU&feature=related</a>          Mark Alan MacKinnon - Apr 21,2010   Viewers  | Reply     Just like the real thing. Lots of flashy high-speed fly-bys, very little water demonstration.          Philip Mendelson - Apr 21,2010   Viewers  | Reply     An interesting aircraft.One of our fellow Searey pilots owns one and flies it regularly.<br />It is not an aircraft for the new pilot, it is sluggish in the water, and very sensitive on the controls. However it is fairly fast...          Joe Varner - Apr 21,2010   Viewers  | Reply     The entire engine is supported from the vertical fin. I watched one start up a few years back and the vertical fin and the tail shake like a wet dog upon start up. I wonder how many hours before something important holding the engine breaks. It looks like a dangerous aircraft to me.          Bruno Grondin - Apr 21,2010   Viewers  | Reply     Yes it is I know a guy here in my town that crashed on take off (fliped over) here on lake des deux montagnes 2 years ago and he never saw anything he told me that he still today never knew what happened and said he was lucky to be alive. 2 fisher man where passing near and saves him.          Don Maxwell - May 12,2010   Viewers  | Reply     The pilot of that Seawind posted this on You Tube: <br /><br />'Hi, I'm the pilot. Great video! Nice to see what the Seawind looks like flying from the outside.<br />'Figured I'd 'eat crow' and explain the long take off... and not give the plane a bad rap for my error. In this instance we were heavy (4 grown men) but more importantly I only used 5 degrees of flaps (should have had 20). Typical takeoffs - with correct flaps and light - is 18 seconds.<br />'Love the plane; it's great in the air and on the water.'<br /><br />There are a couple of other comments, too.<br />          Mark Alan MacKinnon - May 14,2010   Viewers  | Reply     Don, I just watched it again and noticed the comments are missing. Did you remove them?          Don Maxwell - May 14,2010   Viewers  | Reply     They're still there, Mark. They're below the video--including the one that says, in part, 'You r one&amp;#65279; ignorant butt-hole wannabe.'          Randolph Palma - May 15,2010   Viewers  | Reply     Appears to be a very elegant way to end up dead<br /><a href="http://seawindcrashes.com/">http://seawindcrashes.com/</a>          Kenneth Leonard - May 16,2010   Viewers  | Reply     Don - if you notice the identifier of the guy that wrote that, it appears to possibly be an owner of the Seawind company. Although I have no personal experience with them, I have read some pretty awful things written by folks claiming to have done business with the company owners. Frankly, the woman I spoke with at SNF is the first person I ever heard who had experience in the plane and liked it.

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