The Brits have such a good phrase for thistime of year, "high summer." The days are still long, the Sun burnsthrough us on the ground so we fly as much as we can and wish we were flyingmore. A few of the pilots here in the Lounge just completed what has become anannual event for us. We get together for a weekend a little ways from here andfly seaplanes. There are always about four pilots who pick up the single-enginesea rating over the weekend and several who take the opportunity to get currenton floats or take a little dual to see how they like it. A very pleasantby-product of the weekend is a lot of good conversation among pilots with widelyvarying experience levels and points of view. This year was true to form and I,for one, enjoyed the exchanges of ideas despite being troubled by some of theopinions expressed.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.avweb.com/features/the-pilots-lounge-12is-good-enough-really-good-enough