20 Minutes in Heaven: My Seaplane Flight Over Seattle

For a few weeks now, I have been studying for my FAA flight review and one evening, as I was watching John King discuss pressure and density altitude (every pilot knows the John and Martha King videos!) my mind wandered off and I started thinking about some of my favorite flying moments and in particular, this photo…

Turning final, Lake Union, Seattle

Which of course made me think of a favorite Jimmy Buffett quote and the inspiration behind the existence of this photo…

Landed in the water… just about my favorite thrill.

For as long as I have heard this song line it has held a certain mystique. For Jimmy Buffett, who has probably had many thrills, to say it is just about his favorite… well that endorsement is all it took for me to know someday I was going to land on the water.

This how that someday happened…

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