Why Learn To Fly on Floats?

Whether you have decided to get your private, recreation or commercial pilot's license, there is a few great reasons why you should learn to fly on floats.

Getting That First Job

Once of the best reasons go learn on floats, especially for those of you wanting to become a career bush pilot, is the experience you will get and the HOURS on floats you will have. We get a lot of students who come with their PPL or CPL to get their rating or our 50 hour bush course, who say they never knew they could have taken their private or commercial on floats. If a bush pilot career is what you want and you go from beginning to commercial on floats, you will have around 200 hours of actual floatplane flying. You are much more marketable!

It's More Fun

It's way more fun., just ask around. Most pilots will tell you how thrilling it is is to fly a floatplane, it really does take the fun of flying to a whole new level.

A Challenge

It's more challenging. If you are like most pilots, you most likely are a thrillseekers and actually welcome a challenge. One big difference between landplanes and seaplanes is the unending challenge to master something that never stays the same. Every take off, every flight and every landing is different. The fact that you flew the same route doesn't matter. Today the wind is different, the water will be different, the boat traffic will be different. A Float pilot never stops learning. Also flying floats, you will be flying more manuvers closer to the ground (water) so you must be a proficient pilot. Our Aircraft (constant speed) are more complex then the standard  Land Training aircraft. Flying floats is undoubtedly more difficult but as we already mentioned, also more fun!