RC PBY Catalina on the Green River Lake in Kentucky [720p]

Brought the Dynam 1.5m PBY (specs listed below) on a week long family houseboat holiday on the beautiful Green River Lake in Kentucky about 1.5hrs south of Louisville. Very few other boats around, mostly glassy water and calm winds meant flying every day for a total of over 1.5 hours in the air with exactly zero time over dry land. Unplanned recovery would have meant either a long swim, a slow, dicey rescue with a 72' houseboat or bribing a bassboat driver, if one was around. Except for the one tip stall/crash which was entirely my fault she always landed more or less smoothly and returned to the boat under her own power. Since the video is so long here are links to certain parts: Day 1: tail cam at sunset over Holmes Bend Marina (our home base) 0:17 Day 2: tail cam with houseboat tied up in a cove. Tip stall crash 2:40 Day 3: tail cam flying around moving houseboat (7mph + 5-10mph headwind) 6:40 Day 5: tail cam flying in front of the GR Dam. Perfect flying conditions! 10:20 Day 6: nose cam briefly chasing a Jetskier and low level flying around houseboat 13:51 On-board 720p video is from a 808 #16 Keychain Camera with the 120degree 'D' lens. Cost $44 from Ebay. PBY is from Nitroplanes, cost ~$200 including a couple 3S 2200mAh 25-50C Nano-Tech batteries from Hobbyking and one of HK's new "full range" Orange 6ch RX. mods: shortened, angled and fitted mock CF linkages to the wing floats, replaced stock motors with same power but larger shafts from my JPower P-38, programmed differential thrust for water taxiing, replaced all self tapping screws with 4-40 capscrews, fitted dual elevator linkages, moved aileron links to forward/back holes on servo horns so there is a bit more 'up' movement than 'down', reconstructed and fiber-glassed the nose after a huge crash straight down into blacktop. The Cat is one of my tougher planes to fly. You've got to have some decent speed before starting a turn otherwise she'll tip stall and pack it in. If that happens you'll need ~50' of airspace to recover by slamming full opposite rudder and fire-walling the throttle. With no dihedral, short length-to-width ratio, the aerodynamics of a barn and merely adequate power she takes care and planning to fly well. After ~10 flights (have a total of ~20 at end of trip) I began feeling more comfortable and started really enjoying her. Other than my JPower P-38 there's not much that looks cooler in the air then the big Cat. Transmitter is Spektrum DX8 with a Hobbyking LiPo. Works well for me with el cheapo Orange RXs from HK.