Try the 172. It works for me as it should. Just make sure you lower the water rudder. The pilatus though… man its frustrating that they still havent fixed it after so long.
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I was able to steer the floatplane Pilatus after putting the landing gear down after landing on water. Stupid yes, but it works.
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I join the discussion only now because I never flew the PC-6 floatplane before… It appears the problem comes from the aircraft itself, it is uncontrollable on water, with or without water rudder, making it impossible to take off. On the other hand, the C172 float plane works like a charm. It is not as controllable as on ground, which is normal, and behaves in a realistic way, as far as I can tell (I never flew a float plane in real life). I can easily land and take off with the C172.
It’s worth remembering that some of the historical float planes were often maneuvered by men in row boats, even steam tugs weren’t abundant everywhere.
Did they use row boats for take off? 
I’m joking of course, but what I mean here is that when the PC-6 aircraft is correctly aligned for take off and I set power, the aircraft turns and I can’t control it to keep it on a straight trajectory 
I am sure that even historical float planes didn’t behave this way.
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Now that would be worth watching
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Thanks, somehow that corrects the water rudder bug.
I even raised the water rudder since the plane floated high with landing gear down and the rudder was no longer in the water!
Now it steers correctly - one bug fixes another! Haha!!!
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Yes, the same. Every float plane I’ve flown has some internal method to lower the rudders so they can provide turn capability in water taxi. The Msfs PT6 doesn’t have that. If so I can’t find it. Wheels go up and down electrically. Is there a Real PT6 float driver out there that can shed light on this?
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The float Pilatus PC-6 cannot be steered on the water even with the water rudders down. (The lever to extend the water rudders in on the floor to the left of the pilot’s seat.) I would really like to see this fixed!
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Yes, too bad that such bug has still not been fixed after all this time
Still bugged. Had the same issue for a couple years now.
Still has the issue 2 years later!
wait, the official included Asobo pc-6 is completely unable to steer on the water?
Yes. They never fixed it.
thats wild. assumed it’d be patched by now
I’m very happy to be able to write FIXED!
Now the beautiful Pilatus DOES STEER ON WATER!
Thanks to a brilliant mod by the great FD modder MGouge:
Thank you SO much dear friend!
BTW, MGouge has made mods for almost all default aircraft and all of them are accurate and improve effectively their handling. And of course all of them are FREE 
I disagree, this is something that has to be fixed by Asobo not a third party mod. This isn’t even accessible to Xbox users.
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agreed. definitely not fixed
Fixed in Sim Update 14.