Fleas on Floats

[Mike von S.]

I am fascinated by Jacques Arnould's Flying Flea on floats, which I see on Pou Guide (the translated version). Apparently, worried he would need additional pitch control, Arnould added flaps to the rear wing, but he never uses them. He writes: "In a seaplane, the Mignet formula has a big advantage: because it is the front wing which ensures pitching, upon landing or takeoff the fuselage only has a very small angle with the surface of the water. and as a result the floats are very little pitched up; these 2 flight configurations, so critical on classic float planes, are only a formality on the HM 293. When we land, we pass for a super pilot in the eyes of the earthly spectators while the plane lands, in fact, all alone!"

Has anyone else flown a Flea on floats? Any additional PIREPs? Any aerodynamic "gotchas" lurking in such a configuration?
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