AIUI Transport Canada recently made a regulation restricting all aircraft to no more than one canoe on the floats, which has had the effect of seriously increasing the cost of flying in for remote canoe trips. I do not know exactly where to search for the regs, but have had freinds forced to give up plans for fly-in trips because the Beaver could no longer take a "full" load. GaryJ Craig Jungers wrote: >> I've had two people I knew who had single-engine Otters on floats; one on > amphibs. One was parked about three houses away from me here on the lake. > Huge airplane. The one on amphibs was set up as an adventure airplane and > based in Auburn, WA (just east of SeaTac). They used it as a camper for > fishing trips into Canada complete with canoes strapped to the floats. > > Dream airplanes for outdoor enthusiasts, that's for sure. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Oct 27 2009 - 17:49:53 PDT
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