In a previous article, "Jay Honeck" said:
Looking at the design, I'd say an off-airport landing in anything less
than ideal conditions will be fatal, since that big engine and prop is
hanging right above and behind your head. Hit anything moderately
hard on the ground, and you'll have an O-360 with a pair of Ginsu
knives coming right through the cockpit.

The other factor with these high engined seaplanes is that if the engine
fails, you've got to push the nose down *immediately* because they
naturally want to pitch up into an immediate stall. Normal planes have
the thrust line a little below the center of drag so that when the thrust
is removed it pitches down naturally, but these types of planes have the
opposite arrangement.


--
Paul Tomblin http://blog.xcski.com/
[Hunt for Red October] also passed the "Is this believable" test.
Such as, software that classes unknown sounds as sea animals mating ...
-- rwp