Scudrunners

What a shame to see a cub upside down in a lake(the guy is OK so we can lament the aeroplane) - In my experience this kind of event is usually a brain fart caused by either complacency or high stress. The later is likely true here. Here is a 50 something sunday flyer out for likely one of his first spring float practice and self recurrent check out. This is not a large lake and I have to question the [font=helvetica neue][size=13px]decision to use this as a practice area. If this is where he lives and keeps the aircraft why not go and practice where there is more room before taking on a small lake. Getting back to my point ( old age wanderings - haha) I have seen so many examples where pilots get "tunnel" vision when under stress. I watched a DC8 takeoff in Dayton with the cargo door open. Once the got it back on the ground and parked the crew bailed and all they did was fuel to cutoff - all the lights and beacons were flashing away after they left in the crew van. Stress causes a lot of brain farts and fuck ups - for "Sunday" flyers it might be good to look for an experienced instructor/float pilot or pilot for their first flight of the season depending on what you are going to fly. [/size][/font]

I don't think the issue is in the training of amphibians in general (I'm not saying that training in Canada doesn't need heavy reform). It's not fucking rocket science, if you're landing on water bring the gear up, if you're landing on pavement put it down. I'm surprised that this isn't just a sneaky tangent to bring up Chucks favourite TC inspector.

If you can't take a second to do what Chuck said, or whatever mental check you do, stop flying, stick with video games or porn for your stick handling.

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