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<blockquote data-quote="Ol&#039; Red" data-source="post: 2475614" data-attributes="member: 107965"><p>OK, it's my turn. This was back in 1994, on my last caribou hunt before moving south. Two buddies and myself were getting dropped on off for a week. Flying through a pass, the flaps were down and we were gaining 100 feet altitude every 60 seconds. Let's just say it was windy. We get to the lake we were being dropped on and I was thinking what a smooth touchdown the pilot did on the lake. If you landed on floats you know how loud it is. When the pilot said "oh $h!t" I then felt the floats touch water. That is not a phrase that I want to hear from my pilot, or my surgeon. The wind was behind us and kept pushing. There was a three foot ledge at the shore and I thought we were going to catch the front of the floats and flip, because we were going too fast to stop. The pilot pulled back and hit the throttle and we lifted up just in time to get over the ledge and skid about thirty yards on the grass. Floats stop faster on grass than on water. We all just sat there for what seemed a long time before I finally said "If I knew we were landing on dry ground I would not be wearing hip waders. We all got out, I kissed a patch of ground, and we unloaded our gear. Four of us pushed the plane back into the water and he was taking off into the wind. That plane lifted off the water in about three float lengths. That night we had 60 MPH sustained winds and gusts that reached 105 MPH. Keeping the tent and gear secure is a story for another time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ol' Red, post: 2475614, member: 107965"] OK, it's my turn. This was back in 1994, on my last caribou hunt before moving south. Two buddies and myself were getting dropped on off for a week. Flying through a pass, the flaps were down and we were gaining 100 feet altitude every 60 seconds. Let's just say it was windy. We get to the lake we were being dropped on and I was thinking what a smooth touchdown the pilot did on the lake. If you landed on floats you know how loud it is. When the pilot said "oh $h!t" I then felt the floats touch water. That is not a phrase that I want to hear from my pilot, or my surgeon. The wind was behind us and kept pushing. There was a three foot ledge at the shore and I thought we were going to catch the front of the floats and flip, because we were going too fast to stop. The pilot pulled back and hit the throttle and we lifted up just in time to get over the ledge and skid about thirty yards on the grass. Floats stop faster on grass than on water. We all just sat there for what seemed a long time before I finally said "If I knew we were landing on dry ground I would not be wearing hip waders. We all got out, I kissed a patch of ground, and we unloaded our gear. Four of us pushed the plane back into the water and he was taking off into the wind. That plane lifted off the water in about three float lengths. That night we had 60 MPH sustained winds and gusts that reached 105 MPH. Keeping the tent and gear secure is a story for another time. [/QUOTE]
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