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Posted on 8/5/23 at 4:06 pm to 777Tiger
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met a guy at work the other day with an ATP MEL Sea
Know a guy with one. He flew in the Caribbean for a while. Think he's a firefighter now.
Posted on 8/5/23 at 4:20 pm to Jim Rockford
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The NGAA Catalina II will be the largest, fastest, longest range, highest payload, and most capable amphibious aircraft available worldwide with Western Certifications.
I'm interested to know how the specs compare to the DHC-515, which Viking/DeHavilland Canada is trying to return to production. I'm not sure that some of those boasts would be true, since the CL-415 (previous version) was definitely heavier and would surely be faster than the notoriously slow Catalina, even if you gave it turboprop power.
This post was edited on 8/5/23 at 4:32 pm
Posted on 8/5/23 at 4:36 pm to Jim Rockford
An american icon of WWII
Posted on 8/5/23 at 5:27 pm to Jim Rockford
I can land in Escambia Bay and roll up the ramps at NAS Pensacola
Posted on 8/5/23 at 5:33 pm to slacker130
yep, I would imagine that’s a rarity, and with good reason, I think he maintains it because he takes some time off every year to do some designee work
Posted on 8/5/23 at 5:45 pm to 777Tiger
Jimmy Buffett used to fly around in an Albatross (the famed Hemisphere Dancer).
Posted on 8/5/23 at 5:48 pm to SoFla Tideroller
And he almost killed himself doing it, up near the Hamptons, iirc
Posted on 8/6/23 at 12:36 pm to 777Tiger
The Jamaican authorities almost killed him, too. 
Posted on 8/6/23 at 12:38 pm to SoFla Tideroller
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The Jamaican authorities almost killed him, too.
well, he is a writer, I have a feeling the old baw embellished that a little
Posted on 8/6/23 at 1:28 pm to 777Tiger
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And he almost killed himself doing it, up near the Hamptons, iirc
That was the seaplane he owned before Hemisphere Dancer I believe It was a Grumman Widgeon, not the big Albatross.
Would love to experience the Catalina. I think the 2008 economy crash took them out of business, but there used to be a company in south Florida that owned a handful of restored PanAm Clippers (or some other seaplane like that) and flew them on passenger service routes into the Caribbean Islands.
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