SUPER SEAWIND FLIGHT TO FABULOUS MAINE, Super Seawind Flight to Fabulous Maine By Steve Wightman, Builder and Owner of a Turbine Seawind AmphibianMaine Outdoors SUPER
Today, all the resources of an all glass cockpit are now available at my fingertips. Starting with my IPAD flight planner, Garmin Pilot, I save time creating and filing my flight plan and managing logs only digitally now. Further, I can plan any flight on my IPAD, I-Phone or desktop, file it and load it to my flight computer via wi-fi. I no longer have to call and talk to Flight Service. Also, these computers log and track flight statistics and maintenance data without me lifting a finger.
the G900X shows about 200 TAS. You’re now humming along in the sun, eating terrain and conserving precious fuel. Also, like just about every other system on N71RJ, the solar system is backed up by a HVAC system I designed that keeps the cabin cozy. It varies and blends cold inlet air and hot engine-supplied air to supplement solar power and keep you comfy even at night.
That sad day in 2014, she had not only lost a loving husband, but a copilot friend too. Like her husband, the copilot was also a dad, a friend, a brother and a son. There were no survivors. Something critical had been overlooked. Understanding the cause of this fatal crash and so many others over my flying years I reflected; “what makes my Seawind safer than other builders and even safer than type certificated airplanes like Cirrus, Cessna and Piper?”
