Pontoon Boat & Deck Boat Forum

You just never know what you might spot on any day out boating. We had finished lunch yesterday at Papas on the Lake and decided to stop by the island for a bit of sun worshiping. Found a few folks there. A few minutes later this 2008 pristine Cessna 206 made an absolutely perfect landing, taxied to the beach and set about turning it around to get the front of the toons pointed into the wind.


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I chatted with him a bit. It is fully loaded with variable pitch prop and full electronic instrumentation. Not your grandfather's cockpit!

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I was fishing at Lake Isabella, CA. there was a forest fire & this fire fighter plane landed and got a load of lake water near me......watched him take off way cool.

A gentleman about 1/2 mile from us has a seaplane and he keeps it on an inclined dock with a roof over it. I think it's a 1947 model Cessna.

When he bought the plane, he took delivery on Lake Guntersville. But the battery was dead at the time. He climbed out on the pontoon to manually turnover the propeller. After a few spins, the engine started up--at full throttle. The boat was accelerating--with him outside and nobody in the plane. Somehow, he found the strength to open the door, climb in and lift off.

I have seen him taking off when a bass boat came out of a small slough at full throttle--almost colliding. Sea plane pilots do undergo some danger every time they take off.

That'd be cool to watch.

One of my Favorite local lakes has a small seaplane base..... which it why its one of my favorites! No water patrol/sheriff on that lake though and on a busy weekend it can get hectic for those planes to land or take off due to all the water traffic. The DNR does come out and keep a stretch clear though when the Forestry Water Bombers are fighting a fire though.

Certainly can't top the fire fighter PB Y, or what ever it was.........

BUT, this weekend we had some excitement on our cove at Smith Mountain Lake, VA as a small plane landed, coasted past our boat house, turned around and then took off......

I don't have a pix handy, but down here on the west coast of central Florida, we have a Cessna that flies into the scallop grounds near us. He anchors out in the flats and dives with the rest of us. Gets his quota and waves, takes off.