Our efforts to enhance seaplane flying went European in 2010: the second German Seaplane Day was held from 1. - 3. October 2010 at Lake Como.

The second GSD has safely taken place: No accident whatsoever and lots of fun for the participants. Also many of the attending people got to fly, thanks to the kind pilots and owners of the arriving planes and the helpful instructors of Aero Club Como. See the Forum for more information about the event.

Jointly with the world's oldest continuously operating training facility for seaplane pilots, Aero Club Como, participants met and flew together the first weekend in October.

Italy‘s seaplane heritage dates back to the earliest flights of water based aircraft. In 1913 the first seaplanes flew from Lake Como, taking part in a European seaplane competition. Aero Club Como was founded on 6th April 1930. Now the flight school logs around 3,500 hours of water flying each year.

Cesare Baj, president of the club, wrote one of the standard books for seaplane pilots “Seaplane Operations – Basic and Advanced Techniques for Floatplanes, Amphibians and Flying Boats from around the World”. Float planes of Aero Club Como include: Cessna 172, Cessna 172 XP, Piper PA 18, Cessna 305 C, Cessna 206, Lake LA4-200 EP. Aero Club Como is the oldest best known seaplane base in Europe – there is hardly a European seaplane rated pilot who has not been there and flown at least once.

In August German pilot Stefan Mommertz "checked out" the beautiful GSD 2010 location. He crossed the Alps with his seaplane (Scout) flying to Aero Club Como.

Planned highlights for the Seaplane Day in 2010

FORMATION FLYING
Formation flights to different restaurants at Lake Como

BESIDES FLYING
Plenty of time for social life for the participants during the days and at the official evening dinner (Friday), a nice lunch on Saturday at a restaurant at the lake where participants will be flying to, and participants have also been invited to join the private AEROCLUB COMO HANGAR PARTY on Saturday night. With music. We are currently checking if the Saturday dinner will also take place there. You need to be registered for that if you are not already listed on this webpage as participant: please send an informal email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

EXHIBITION AND VIDEOS
For the time in between flights and when maybe the sun is hiding, seaplane videos will be shown continuously in a large exhbition room. We are also planning on an seaplane related exhibition in this room.

EUROPEAN EFFORTS
We have to exchange ideas and unite in our efforts to making seaplanes part of everybodies life. Well, at least to a kind skydiving has reached in this days would be a great step forward. European efforts will also be one of the major topics for discussions of the second Seaplane Day. We will have one member of the University of Frankfurt of a joint project we are planning and he will talk about this very interesting subject.

MEDIA
Like at the first German Seaplane last September in Trier all Media people (TV, radio, Print, web) are welcome to join this beautiful and exceptionell event. Please contact us in advance.

For more details on schedule and hotels please visit the participants page.

Last Updated on Wednesday, 23 March 2011 12:57