RE: Neat
im not overly impressed. It looks cool, but after full fuel you are only looking at a load of only 600-700 lbs. I make up close to half of that at 280lbs + flight gear. So I could only take 2 other normal sized people with bags or three very small people with no bags. Not oo much better than the Skyhawk XP or the PA-28RT-201T I have been flying around lately. Plus, most of the lakes around here are pretty small and with such a high stall speed and a high Vx, you are looking at some potentailly long take-offs and landings, that aren't really condisive to the bodies of water around here. Where the Maule all STOL'ed out w/ Vortex generators will fly very nicely dirty at around 35-40 kts. Definitely a neat airplane, and pretty inriguing, but definitely not for me. If I was gonna do it, I would do it right and get a Widgeon or a Beaver.