{"id":143,"date":"2010-11-26T19:02:53","date_gmt":"2010-11-27T00:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flymall.org\/blog\/?p=143"},"modified":"2010-11-27T10:54:17","modified_gmt":"2010-11-27T15:54:17","slug":"jack-browns-seaplane-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flymall.org\/blog\/2010\/11\/jack-browns-seaplane-base\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Brown’s Seaplane Base"},"content":{"rendered":"

The team at Flymall.org <\/a>planned a trip to Jack Brown\u2019s Seaplane Base to get our Seaplane Rating.\u00a0 What started out as just a simple trip for Pat and I turned out to be an adventure for a group of folks.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Founded in the early 1960s by Jack Brown (pictured below), Jack Brown\u2019s Seaplane Base has trained more seaplane pilots than any other place in the world.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Pat and I headed south on Saturday morning driving our motor-home.\u00a0 We decided being able to stay right there at the seaplane base would make the training that much more enjoyable and less stressful.\u00a0 Our class did not start until Tuesday so we gave ourselves plenty of time to get there.\u00a0\u00a0Arriving on Sunday we set up camp with a view of the lake right outside our window. \u00a0We checked in at the school to let them know we were there and eager to start training.\u00a0 The folks at the school informed us that our friends Susan and Andy Beall had checked in earlier that day.\u00a0 Accompanied with her flight instructor Gary, Susan flew down in her Cessna 172 and used the flight down as her long cross country for her commercial rating.\u00a0\u00a0And while Susan was out splashing around in the lakes in the seaplane her husband Andy (a student pilot) was flight training with Gary in their Cessna 172 and also logging some solo cross country time.\u00a0 Lin Caywood, her husband to be (Carlo), and Brenda (Lin\u2019s flight instructor) also arrived on Sunday but their flight was not so uneventful.\u00a0 Lin owns a Cessna 182 equipped with the G1000.\u00a0 Well north of their final destination the alternator failed and they continued as far as they could using the backup battery.\u00a0 Lin was also using the trip down to receive some flight training with her instructor Brenda.\u00a0 Lin got as far as they could but did not make it to the seaplane base.\u00a0 They made it to Craig Municipal Airport in Jacksonville, Florida and rented a car to continue on.\u00a0 Both Lin and Susan were scheduled to start flight training on Monday morning.\u00a0 While Lin was training in the seaplane Carlo (an Airframe & Powerplant mechanic) drove back up to Jacksonville to try and correct the alternator problem.\u00a0 After a few trips to Jacksonville and numerous phone calls to find parts, Carlo finally corrected the problem.<\/p>\n

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Lin\u2019s plane wasn\u2019t the only plane that had issues.\u00a0 One evening Pat, Susan, and I were hanging out with one of the senior instructors at Jack Brown\u2019s discussing what to expect on our flight test.\u00a0 Susan received a call from her husband Andy who was out with their flight instructor getting some night flying experience.\u00a0 Instead of out flying, he was calling Susan from a bar explaining to her that on one of their landings they blew a tire and couldn\u2019t get it fixed until the next day.\u00a0 Susan’s plane is for sale if anyone is interested – click here for more information<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mid week we were joined by Debi Dreyfuss\u00a0and Linda Knowles who had also signed up for the course.\u00a0 Debi and Linda flew down in Debi\u2019s Cessna 182 equipped with the G1000 system.\u00a0 Debi had the only plane that did not have any maintenance issues on the flight down.\u00a0 But\u00a0Debi did\u00a0have 2 seaplanes break down while she was training. \u00a0By the way, I sold Susan and Lin their aircraft new when I was a Cessna dealer and I helped sell Debi her 182 just before I became a dealer.<\/p>\n

The course is a two day class consisting of some classroom time and five hours of flying time.\u00a0 Lin Caywood got a bit of a scare and learned a lesson during a session in the classroom.\u00a0 One of Lin\u2019s classroom sessions was interrupted by one of the employees barging in shouting \u201cQuick where is the shot gun?\u201d\u00a0 Well poor Lin thought \u201cAm I doing that bad that they want to shoot me?\u201d It turns out that they have a snake problem at Jack Brown\u2019s.\u00a0 The Cottonmouth Water Moccasin to be exact.\u00a0 They are very aggressive and will actually chase after people.\u00a0 As soon as one is spotted there is no trial, nothing, they are shot on site.\u00a0 One of the instructors spotted one while\u00a0she and Pat were getting ready to go flying.\u00a0 The video below sums it up for the snake.<\/p>\n

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The J3 Piper Cub<\/a>, built in the 1940s is a very basic aircraft.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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With no electrical system, this means no starter, so you have to hand prop the aircraft to start it.<\/p>\n

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But once underway it is nothing but pure fun.<\/p>\n

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We had one day when we could not fly due to high winds and one morning we had to wait for some fog to burn off<\/a>, but other than that the weather was perfect.\u00a0 \u00a0The worst part of each lesson was returning to the dock (the fun was over for this session).<\/p>\n

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It was very different flying experience for all involved.\u00a0 We never got any higher than 500 feet above the ground.\u00a0 Often while pre-flighting the plane or securing it for the evening you would see alligators on the beach or dock sunning themselves. \u00a0<\/p>\n

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All total 6 of us received our seaplane rating over the course of the week.\u00a0 For more information on Jack Brown\u2019s visit the Day Tripper section of our site <\/a>or use the search box in the upper right corner of our site and search for seaplane.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Here are some shots of the wildlife that we enjoyed seeing during our stay.<\/a><\/p>\n

Here is a slide show with some highlights of our visit at Jack Brown\u2019s Seaplane Base.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Click here for Linda’s pictures of her adventure at Jack Brown’s.<\/a><\/p>\n

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The team at Flymall.org planned a trip to Jack Brown\u2019s Seaplane Base to get our Seaplane Rating.\u00a0 What started out as just a simple trip for Pat and I turned out to be an adventure for a group of folks.\u00a0 Founded in the early 1960s by Jack Brown (pictured below), Jack Brown\u2019s Seaplane Base has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p95FsX-2j","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":165,"url":"https:\/\/flymall.org\/blog\/2010\/11\/seaplane-crash-in-lake-jessie\/","url_meta":{"origin":143,"position":0},"title":"Seaplane Crash in Lake Jessie","date":"November 29, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Just a week after a group of us earned our seaplane ratings at Jack Brown's Seaplane Based an Okeechobee man was killed when his amphibious, ultralight airplane plunged into Lake Jessie. 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