Hi Thomas, not very proficient at all, never flew a Husky on floats or at all for that matter. I’ve flown C-180, DHC-2 on float only a couple hours a long time ago. Recently a M-7-235 and a 260on Wip 3000 amph. Maybe 25 hours and of course the TwinBee for 30 hours.
I’m kinda looking for a base line, how about a standard day, sealevel , light wind, small ripple on the surface. There is a lake 3800’ long that I want to go into, 60’ trees on both ends at the waters edge. I’m interested in fun flying not a thrill a second ride getting out. Thanks Thomas.
Yes, that would be pretty easy for even a new float pilot in a Husky. Remember that landing is easy and pretty short on floats......takeoff, not so much, but 3800 feet is plenty long at sea level, even with obstacles. I have a picture of the Baumann float supplement page for takeoff performance at varying density altitudes if someone can upload it.
I've forgotten the length of the lake now, but it was very short. I went in there with an early (actually the first production B) B model on Baumann floats when there was a wind blowing. A round lake, not very big, but with wind, no sweat. Then we spent over an hour hiking (long story, ugly conditions) to pick up a radio collar. When we got back, no wind. This lake was small enough I was concerned.
I actually took out the Float Supplement, and referenced the takeoff distance data. We had a laser rangefinder, which I used to measure the lake. the trees were fairly short.....30 feet. The distance in the FM Supplement for conditions was about fifty feet less than what we had, but we were also about 150 pounds below GW. We heeled the floats up on one shoreline, climbed in, which stuck the plane pretty good....mud bottom. That allowed me to warm up the engine, and go to almost max power before the plane started to slide.
We cleared the trees by a good 75 tpo100 feet.
Husky is an amazing seaplane.
MTV