" 1924, it's been a long time when the first amphibious of Gabriel Voisin (1880-1973), son of the airplane and the seaplane flew over the river Seine. It was on the 3rd of August 1911. Do we remember it ?... Time passes so quickly ! It does not know speed limit.
Today, the amphibious is going to fly around the world.
Four Douglas aircrafts (World Cruiser) equiped for either terrestrial landind, or water landing take off from Santa Monica, California on the 17th of March 1924, towards Japan.
5 months and 15 days later, on the 9th of September, coming from the East, three of the four Douglas land on the sea at Port Washington, after having flown over Japan, Indo-China, India, Asia, Southern Europe, France, England and Ireland.
The fourth one crashed on the way, fortunately without any victim.
The crews who travelled along near 50 000 kilometers were al military officers."
Extract from - HISTOIRE DE L'AVIATION - René Chambe (1889 - 1983) / Copyright Flammarion Publishing1963.
Some legs/airfields are located near rivers, lakes, coastal bays or harbours ; the water landing is, therefore possible.
Denis Simanaitis has developped for FS9 (2004), the Douglas World Cruiser, available freely at the following adress : Simviation / Vintage / Page 21.
As far as I am concerned, I used two amphibious by Eugene Heyart, the "Albatross" (file SJ_Alb_2.zip), available at FS Dome, uploaded on the 30th October 2006 ; and the Otter NG (file OtterNG2;zip), available on this site : Downloads / FS 2004 / Aircrafts / Seaplanes.
GPS recommended, especially for water landings on the seabases water runways
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USA I
Santa Monica KSMO /645mn/ Eugene City (Mahlon Sweet KEUG) /93mn/ Vancouver (Pearson KVUO) /121mn/ Seattle ( Seattle Seaplanes Base 0W0) 503mn
CANADA I
Prince Ruppert CYPR / 234mn
USA II
Seaplanes Base Sitka A29 /477mn/ Seward PAWD /365mn/ Seaplanes Base Chignik Z78 /323mn/ Dutch Harbour (Driftwood Bay Air Force Station AK23) /284mn/ Atkha PAAK /461mn/ Atu (Casco Cove CGS) 672mn
RUSSIA
Kouriles Islands - GPS target : JAPAN - Nakashibetsu RJCN
1/ Paramouchi : N 50 23 02 E 155 41 04
2/ Itouroup : N 45 05 20 E 147 49 41 /663mn
JAPAN
Kasumigaura RJAK /535mn/ Kagoshima RJFK / 459mn
CHINA
Shangaï (Pudong ZSPD) /442mn/ Xiamen (Gaoqi ZSAM) /268mn/ Hong Kong (Hong Kong Intl VHHH) 495mn
VIETNAM
Da Nang (Da Nang Intl VVDN) /327mn/ Hochimin (Tanshonnat Intl VVTS) 401mn
THAILAND
Bangkok (Bangkok Intl VTBD) 314mn
BIRMANIA - FS : MYANMAR
Rangoon - FS : Yangon (Yangon Intl VYYY) /268mn/ Sittwe VYSW /290mn
INDIA
Calcutta - FS : Kolkata (Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Intl VECC) /404mn/ Allahabad VIAL /310mn/ Delhi (Indira Ghandi Intl VIDP) 313mn
PAKISTAN
Multan OPMI /390mn/ Karachi (Jinnah Intl OPKC) 597mn
IRAN
Bandar Abbas OIKB /311mn/ Bushehr OIBB / 425mn
IRAQ
Bagdad ORBS / 431mn
SYRIA
Latakia (Bassed Al Assad Intl OSLK) 224mn
TURKEY
Konia AB LTAN /251mn/ Istambul (Ataturk LTBA) 247mn
ROMANIA
Bucarest (Otepani LROP) 247mn
SERBIA
Belgrade LYBE /163mn
HUNGARY
Budapest (Ferihegy LHBP) /116mn
AUSTRIA
Vienna (Schwechat LOWW) /357mn
FRANCE
Strasbourg (Entzheim LFST) /207mn/ Paris (Le Bourget LFPB) 178mn
UK
Londres (London City EGLC) /135mn/ Brough EGNB /324mn/ Kirkwall EGPA /474mn
ICELAND
Hofn (Hornafjord BIHN) /175mn/ Rekiavik BIRK /668mn
DENMARK-GREENLAND
Narsarsuaq BGBW /583mn
CANADA II
Cartwright CYCA /530mn/ Seaplanes Base Pictou - N 45 40 25 O 62 42 30 - GPS target : Trenton CYTN /411mn
USA III
Boston (Boston Logan KBOS) /181mn/ Seaplanes Base Port Washington : N 40 49 37 O 73 42 38 - GPS target : New York (New York Skyports 6N7)
Copyright Michel Lagneau 2008