After spending several days with Ross Mahon and Ben Ellison learning about their new seaplane creation, the Gweduck, the author finally got enough of a break in the inclement November weather to fly it have always enjoyed flying seaplanes in Seattle. The area has its own distinctive urban bush feel. Flying low-level VFR along the shorelines is no different than it is anyplace else, only just above you there is a steady progression of Boeing jets flying through the Class B airspace, and you occasionally fly over a bridge lit up with a long line of red taillights stuck in one of the city's semi-perpetual traffic jams.
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