Float
Planes and Amphibs - universal Full Lotus float mounting
kits for ultralight, lightsport, and experimental lightsport
aircraft, Lightsport Aircraft Pilot News
newsmagazine.
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Lightsport
Aircraft Pilot is a directory of aircraft that generally fit
into what are described as ultralight aircraft, advanced ultralight
aircraft,
light sport aircraft, experimental light sport aircraft, experimental
aircraft, amateur built aircraft, ELSA or homebuilt
aircraft in the United States and Canada. These include
weight shift aircraft, more commonly known as trikes,
powered parachutes, and powered para-gliders.
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Full Lotus float
mounting kit for lightsport
aircraft, experimental
lightsport, amateur built aircraft.
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Ultralight "people" are very inventive, take for example the people at
Float Planes and Amphibs. They loved to fly on floats, but couldn't find a
quality mounting system or retract system that worked, so they
designed and built their own.
The float mounting kit is heavy duty, using
stronger tubing, larger sleeves, side plates, and hardware with all
of the in house parts done on C&C equipment.
They had a straight float
plane that they needed to get to an inland hangar during
hurricane season. While they could fly to the inland strip and land the
floats on the wet grass they had no way of taking off again, so they
designed a cart that they could easily load their plane on, with a quick
disconnect system.
The pilot gets up to flying speed hits the cart release
lever the plane takes off and the cart is retrieved for the next time it
is needed.
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Being from a conventional aircraft background they are use to flying
with instruments in front of them, but they couldn't find anyone supplying
instrument pods for the wide open design of the Quicksilver so now they
offer instrument pods for sale designed around the American made Engine
Information System (E.I.S.).
Not happy with the quality of the aircraft trim adjuster supplied by
the kit manufacturer they have designed a better adjustable trim system,
push up to lift the nose, pull down to go down, and a dual rear down
tube assembly that stiffens up the back of the Quicksilver for more
stability on floats, and prevents wear on the root tube and down tube
assemblies.
Float planes in Florida are subject to a lot of "salty" rain, this
acts on the aluminum engines, to protect them they manufacture an
engine
cover that fits over the engine and exhaust when the craft is parked, and
takes only a minute to install or remove.
Operating from a salt water environment with an aircraft built from
aluminum means that you have to become an "corrosion expert" immediately.
Float Planes and Amphibs have used their years of experience to
identify areas of concern and to supply kits to make flying on
salt water safer. They also offer ready to fly craft with these mods
already done.
Being a "full service" facility Float Planes and Amphibs offers
training on conventional three axis craft and trikes on land, water, and
amphibs.
For more information contact:
Float Planes And Amphibs
Sebring Regional Airport
Bay C-4
11 Crosley Lane
Sebring, Florida 33870
USA
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Full Lotus float mounting kit for lightsport
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