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  1. You are right,on amphibious floats with full fuel you you are limited in passenger size. But considering the range of the CT I never had problem with half fuel and a passenger.Not sure about your question on landing in the grass on straight floats. At the airport where I am,after summer, float planes land on the grass and are stored for the winter. They take of on a trailer pulled by a pick up. As for my amphibious floats, when the Ukraine specialist sent by flight design had installed them, he would go with the plane in very rug grass surfaces without problem. I however avoided to do it myself. I have the installation drawings and the flying manual for the floats should you be interested
  2. In 2006 Flight design was promoting Ctsw on amphibious aluminum floats. They said that the attachment points were reinforced at the factory. Their specialist who is also a pilot came from Ukraine to Canada to install and check the floats in both configuration. I never had any problems with manoeuvrability and no problem with side slip. From pictures that I have seen some fiber floats look quite different from the aluminum one
  3. On Ctsw performance is excellent on Czech amphibious floats. I had problem with stabiliser delamination due to poor material used at that time.
  4. Where do you find them cheap Rotax quotes them at $248
  5. How did you take the measurement for the stab and trim adjustment. I re-installed my stabilator. The maintenance manual (page 4-83) says take measurement and provide some kind of model but I do not see any indication as to what the measure should be. I know that my new trim is not right because even in the lower position it is above the horizontal stab. Any suggestion ?
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