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When I fly the Beaver, how do I set it up to take off from a lake or ocean?

-Jim

If I understand you one way of doing this would be after starting up FSX and selecting your plane and the place you want to start at engines on or cold and dark your choice. After you have every thing set the way you want it then save the flight and make sure to check the box at the bottom to make it your default flight then when you start up FSX it will be with that flight 8-)

Certain airports, the only one i know off the top of my head is Juneau Alaska, have a "water runway" in the air port selection screen...

Select the Aircraft and choose a location - An airport close to a lake or sea. After loading open the Map and then drag the plane icon to the lake. Then start and fly!  - I think this is OK.

a simple way (if it is on) use slew by hiting "Y" hit F4 to move up then F2 so stop then move your joystick around to move when you are over water hit  F1 to go down the when you it the water hit "Y" agean.

Thank you everyone!  I'll try these.

-Jim

In Alaska there are a lot of water runways.
You can find them very easilly by looking at the map, instead of the traditionnal symbol, they have an anchor. When you select one of them, you will notice that in the choice of runways, there is written "water" next to the runway number

You can make a simple test by choosing the easiest one: Seattle Seaplanes