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FYI - There is a `seaplane base'

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During my googling of closed airports in Hawaii that aren't listed on the map by an icon in the legend I also remembered the map legend having a seaplane base. Well there is one with fuel!Island Seaplane Tours is represented. Link to map location: http://maps.google.c...ge&ved=0CDcQ_BIReal Location from Google Maps.68ca5e62.jpgIn game89184330.jpgef8f41cf.jpg

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Cool find...Thanks!

Steve

7 Miles NW of KGCK

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I noticed this when I was doing my video recording. Its selectable as one of the runways, but only if you have an aircraft thats water friendly like the Icon. Very cool! I home Alaska is littered with them!

Kevin Miller

 

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Nice find!

Best, Michael

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Yah.I bumped into it too! Its very familiar to me, since it exists in an FSX payware of that airport as a kind of flickery platform, and I always wondered what it was. I was surprised to see it as a very detailed float-plane base in Flight!.

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I noticed this when I was doing my video recording. Its selectable as one of the runways, but only if you have an aircraft thats water friendly like the Icon. Very cool! I home Alaska is littered with them!
Considering that one of the many messages I saw during some of my Flight loadings, was that you may need a seaplane or helicopter to get certain Aerocaches, would certainly make sense to have it in the sim. I suspect a seaplane may be one of the first dlc aircraft we soon coming next.

Don B

Isn't the Icon a seaplane of sorts? It's amphibious in any case. You can land it anywhere you can land a seaplane.Hook

Larry Hookins

 

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During my googling of closed airports in Hawaii that aren't listed on the map by an icon in the legend I also remembered the map legend having a seaplane base. Well there is one with fuel!Island Seaplane Tours is represented. Link to map location: http://maps.google.c...ge&ved=0CDcQ_BIReal Location from Google Maps.68ca5e62.jpgIn game89184330.jpg
This is one of the early aerocaches. IThe rotating yellow icon lit up when I was landing at PHNL one day and I circled around and landed at the seaplane base.Ray

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Isn't the Icon a seaplane of sorts? It's amphibious in any case. You can land it anywhere you can land a seaplane.Hook
Icon is an amphibian. Seaplanes or more commonly called, floatplanes have no landing gear. Also, the LAST place I would take an Icon is the open ocean. That little thing would get torn up in no time, plus that 100HP engine wont do squad in anything but calm water. You would need like a PBY or Goose for open sea operations.

Kevin Miller

 

3D Artist and developer

Icon is an amphibian. Seaplanes or more commonly called, floatplanes have no landing gear. Also, the LAST place I would take an Icon is the open ocean. That little thing would get torn up in no time, plus that 100HP engine wont do squad in anything but calm water. You would need like a PBY or Goose for open sea operations.
Better yet, a Dornier-24. Don't think that one will turn up as DLC anytime soon though. Perhaps the Goose for Alaska? (One can always hope).

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