A Plane for All Seasons?

There was a pretty good interview with one of the design team of the MVP Aero on the Airplane Owner's Podcast. There website seems to be down for maintenance, but I remember being pretty excited hearing about this aircraft.

The competition should help push the Icon and the SkiGull development.
 
All season plane?

Where are the skis?
 
Lawreston said:
Understanding is, it snow-lands on its belly, same as water landing.

HR
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I find it hard to believe that no boat-plane pilot has tried that before. If it were a good idea, they'd all be doing it.
 
Real all season plane :wink2:



Ski plane.

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150kt x/c plane

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120kt heavy hauler amphib

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Backcountry plane

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I saw one of these at the US Sport Aviation Expo yesterday. Very nice looking package. They had it set up so you could use the front deck as a fishing platform like a bass boat.

John
 
jsstevens said:
I saw one of these at the US Sport Aviation Expo yesterday. Very nice looking package. They had it set up so you could use the front deck as a fishing platform like a bass boat.

John
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My friend and I had a 172 reserved to fly up to KSEF today but the weather turned crap :mad:
 
alfadog said:
My friend and I had a 172 reserved to fly up to KSEF today but the weather turned crap :mad:
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Yeah, the club's chief instructor told me he was going today. I said "Good luck."

I don't know if he went or not. It was VFR under the clouds here most of the morning. And the sun is out now but the wind is really starting to kick up.

John
 
jsstevens said:
Yeah, the club's chief instructor told me he was going today. I said "Good luck."

I don't know if he went or not. It was VFR under the clouds here most of the morning. And the sun is out now but the wind is really starting to kick up.

John
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I tried to talk my buddy into going up with me tomorrow but he has plans for the weekend and I don't want to pony up for a four hour minimum on the airplane all by myself.
 
DJTorrente said:
I find it hard to believe that no boat-plane pilot has tried that before. If it were a good idea, they'd all be doing it.
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I did it, once, in a Republic Seabee, back in 1964.
There was a really good reason for doing it once. There has been absolutely no reason to ever do it again.
 
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