WHY GET YOUR SEAPLANE RATING?

A couple of weeks ago I got my seaplane rating (SES) at Alaska Float Ratings in Moose Pass, Alaska. It was the best flying experience I've ever had!

GOT MY RATING

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Alaska Floatplane Rating Course in Moose Pass

 

This turned out to be one of the best flying experiences I've ever had!

MY EXPERIENCE AT AFR

Blythewood, SC - Instrument Rated Private Pilot – 350 hours

 

As I was preparing for my trip to Moose Pass, Alaska, to learn how to fly float planes I told several of my flying friends in South Carolina about my upcoming adventure. 

ALASKA ON FLOATS

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Flyer, March 2009,

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For some floatplane time, Mike had recommended contacting Alaska Float Ratings at Moose Pass, down the Kenai Peninsula.

COME, FLY ALASKA

Moose Pass is a wide spot in the road in Alaska's Kenai Peninsula, 29 miles north of Seward. Vern's floatplane school sits on the south edge of Upper Trail Lake on an airflow crossroads of glacial valleys, mountain peaks and turquoise water lakes of all sizes and altitudes.

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FLOATPLANE FLYING IN ALASKA

In Alaska, these powerful forces created the extraordinary topography of Alaska's Kenai Peninsula. Mother Nature had also created one of Earth's most challenging and spectacular aviation environments.

GOING FOR WATER WINGS

"I don't really need a float rating," I told him when he first proposed it. "But I would like to get bush-flying experience in Alaska, especially short-field landings with real obstacles."

ADDING A SEAPLANE RATING

BY David Wimer

I recommend Alaska Float Ratings highly. I know there are many quality instructors out there, but in my mind they are top’s there in Moose Pass.

FLOATPLANE HEAVEN

Crista V. Worthy is the managing editor of Pilot Getaways magazine and editor of The Flyline, the monthly publication of the Idaho Aviation Association.