Seaplanes & Close Calls! | Lake LA4 on Lake Tenkiller in the Ozarks

Calling all Green Country, FlyOz and North Texas aviators! If you're looking for a beautiful grass strip in the area, you definitely need to give 44M a try, and if you have friends or neighbors like we with a seaplane or flying boat, then there's no better time to check out Lake Tenkiller here in the Ozarks. In this video, we're taking out our Air Park neighbor's gorgeous red and white Lake Amphibian LA4 for some glassy water takeoffs and low approaches on Lake Tenkiller. Creating that bow wave to get on the step takes a minute on a hot summer day, but the sweeping views make it totally worth it. The only catch? The boaters! Wait for the 1:20 mark—you won't believe how close this boat wanders right into our landing setup. After a quick go-around and some great flying, we head back for a smooth landing at home base: Snake Creek Wilderness Air Park (OK06). Make sure to hit that subscribe button for more aviation adventures, unexpected go-arounds, and Air Park Living with @FlyCouple! #LakeAmphibian #FlyOz #Aviation #LakeTenkiller #WaterLanding #GrassStrip #FlyCouple #OK06 #flyingboat #lake #generalaviation 0:00 Intro 0:24 Low Approach at Lake Tenkiller 0:57 Wait for it... 1:21 The Boater Surprise! (Really Dude?) 1:40 Let's Try That Again 2:17 Getting on the Step & Takeoff 2:40 Landing Back at Snake Creek (OK06) This is the channel of Spencer and Coryee Hamons. We are an aviation couple that didn't grow up in aviation, but we fell in-love with what general aviation has to offer when we were in our 40's. That passion had us buy our first airplane in a partnership, then move to ownership of our current 1981 Piper Saratoga, then saw us start searching for an affordable Air Park Community where we could build our dream house and hangar on a neighborhood airfield. We achieved that dream in 2023 at Snake Creek Air Park near Lake Tenkiller, at the edge of the Ozarks in far eastern Oklahoma. We love aviation and all it has to offer and want to share that with the community here on this channel. We hope we can inspire you to pursue aviation (even if just a little bit), and show that aviation is something that is more accessible than many people think, and you don't have to be in your 20's to do it. Please consider a subscribe to the channel. This channel is brand new as we focus on creating more dedicated aviation content. ‪@FlyCouple‬ will be adding more content soon, but if you are looking for some of the older content from ‪@CIOPilot‬ , that channel is still there as well at    / @ciopilot  . Follow us on social media: Facebook:   / spencer.hamons   Instagram:   / spencerhamons   LinkedIn:   / hamons   #generalaviation #flying #airpark #aviation #pilot