"Ben Jackson" wrote in message
news:7x8Xc.68953$mD.5233@attbi_s02...
How would she divert to an airport if she's got straight floats?

Landing on a hard surface on straight floats sure sounds preferable
to what happened...


I saw on the news last year that an amphibian had landed wheels up and close
the airport briefly until it could be towed away. I looked at our tiedown
neighbor's floats to see if it had been him but everything looked OK.
Turned out that it was him! The keels on his floats were a quarter inch
narrower than they had been before but it was no big deal.

--

Roger Long