I’ve been watching a show called Arctic Air about a transport outfit based out of Yellowknife Canada, so I thought I’d fly my float equipped Zenith around some of the area. But I was disappointed to find that there are no floatplane bases at any of the small towns and cities, including Yellowknife. The scenery looked pretty good, but I had to start my flight at 1500’ air start and could not find an option to start on the water. Since floatplanes are quite common in the far north, especially in the Yellowknife area I was bummed. Is there an easy way to start the flight from a custom start, cold and dark, on the water, or to add a seaplane base?
Even with the custom air start and some enroute touch and go’s on some small lakes my logbook still logged the flight when I landed on the lake rather than the Edzo airfield, which was good and a surprise.
Go to flightsim.to for CYZF - Yellowknife International Airport & CEN9 - Yellowknife Water Aerodrome: Discover & Search - Flightsim.to
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This does not answer the question regarding no seaplane base in Yellowknife, but I wanted to share this in case it helps people for future searches for seaplane bases. Little Navmap has an easy way to see all of the available seaplane locations.
- In the Little Navmap airport search window, click on the “Any Surface” field to drop down the selection list.
- Select “Any is Water”
- Do not use any other filter criteria (city, state, … ) because many water runways do not include that info.
- Not all locations will be listed. Scroll down to the bottom of the list to force LNM to display all the locations.
- Right-click on any row and choose “Select All”
- All the available water runways in the world will appear on the map as yellow circles.
- Right-click on the desired yellow circle to see airport info, add it to your plan, etc.
- Change the search selection back to “Any Surface” to restore the normal airport list.
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