Hi, I've been messing around with the default floatplane for something new, and last night I had no problems at all. Today, without changing anything, I have a problem where the plane won't set on the water at start-up. If I select a lake the plane is a few hundred feet above in the air and stalling! If I select a land runway, it works just fine. I tried to fly from land to water and it worked until I landed and changed views, which put my plane back in the air! What could be causing this? Why didn't it occur last night?

Do you have FS9 set up to setect crashes I know if you have crashes turned off you have a lot of trouble leanding floatplanes...

I believe I have it turned off, because someone stated that you couldn't just land anywhere on water, thus even being off the water runway too much could cause a problem. I also know thought that the crash detection made landing the helicopters anywhere a crash. It's strange because I just flew from one water strip to another without incident, however, when I switched to my external view after landing it put me back in the air a couple hundred feet?? Why would the view change effect where the plane is? I haven't moved the tower on the map or anything. Plus it will do this upon start-up when creating a flight on water.

With crash detection switched off, FS2004's reaction to a bad water landing is to bounce you up a few hundred feet. Get the approach, speed, angle of attack etc. right, and the aircraft will land normally.