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Seaplane in florida?
Any of you guys now of a good place to get a sea rating in florida?
I've been dying to try it, and also to get into bush flying but it seems hard to get a foot in the door unless you have some seaplane experience. Any bush-people out there? |
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Brown's? near Homestead or are they on the west coast..
there was an article in Flying Mag on them years ago BT "Magnus" wrote in message ... Any of you guys now of a good place to get a sea rating in florida? I've been dying to try it, and also to get into bush flying but it seems hard to get a foot in the door unless you have some seaplane experience. Any bush-people out there? |
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Brown's? near Homestead or are they on the west coast.. Brown's is located in Winter Haven half way between Tampa and Orlando. Three day course in 90 HP J-3's. Lots of fun. Walt |
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Any of you guys now of a good place to get a sea rating in florida?
Jack Brown has a Seaplane school in Winter Haven, Florida. It is located half way between Orlando and Tampa. I believe the cost is still around $975. Here is the web address: http://www.gate.net/~seaplane/index.htm David (KORL) |
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Magnus wrote:
Any of you guys now of a good place to get a sea rating in florida? I've been dying to try it, and also to get into bush flying but it seems hard to get a foot in the door unless you have some seaplane experience. Any bush-people out there? What would interest me is what are you going to do with your sea-plane rating after you got it? - buying a sea-plane? Becaues renting one seems to be close to impossible. Chris |
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Exactly! That's the whole problem, sea time seems harder to come by
than multi time.... I honestly don't know. I DO know that the maldives air taxi want 500 hrs sea before they consider you for emplyment. On 2004-03-24 14:59:08 -0500, Chris said: Magnus wrote: Any of you guys now of a good place to get a sea rating in florida? I've been dying to try it, and also to get into bush flying but it seems hard to get a foot in the door unless you have some seaplane experience. Any bush-people out there? What would interest me is what are you going to do with your sea-plane rating after you got it? - buying a sea-plane? Becaues renting one seems to be close to impossible. Chris |
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yes.... but a FL vacation... 3 days of flying capped off by a check ride...
a new rating on the ticket and credit for a flight review that is required every two years.. most people spend that much on a vacation and get nothing out of it but a sun burn. BT "Chris" wrote in message ... Magnus wrote: Any of you guys now of a good place to get a sea rating in florida? I've been dying to try it, and also to get into bush flying but it seems hard to get a foot in the door unless you have some seaplane experience. Any bush-people out there? What would interest me is what are you going to do with your sea-plane rating after you got it? - buying a sea-plane? Becaues renting one seems to be close to impossible. Chris |
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Winter Haven. The lake you fly over on the approach to 04.
The base is just off the other side of the airport (off the main road, not through the airport entrance). Paul "BTIZ" wrote in message news:MC88c.2054$1I5.1624@fed1read01... Brown's? near Homestead or are they on the west coast.. |
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"Magnus" wrote in message Exactly! That's the whole problem, sea time
seems harder to come by than multi time.... I honestly don't know. I DO know that the maldives air taxi want 500 hrs sea before they consider you for emplyment. Seaplanes have a higher incident rate than land planes. Therefore insurance minimums are much higher. Additionally, there are less seaplanes in much of the world. It's a harder road to go down. Here's another choice (I did mine with him)- http://www.seaplane-safaris.com/index2.html and another- http://www.seaplanesofkeywest.com/index.htm and if you have the right to work in the US- http://www.chalksoceanairways.com/ D. |
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On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 22:49:49 -0500, Magnus
wrote: Any of you guys now of a good place to get a sea rating in florida? I've been dying to try it, and also to get into bush flying but it seems hard to get a foot in the door unless you have some seaplane experience. Any bush-people out there Brown's may train more seaplane pilots than any other places in the country. They've been around a long time and certainly know what they're doing. I got my rating from them a couple years ago. I'm leaving tomorrow to do my commercial seaplane and for that I'm going to http://www.flyfloatplanes.com/. He's also in the Orlando area but rather than Cubs he uses a Maule and though it may cost me a little more I like the idea of flying something different. A directory of seaplane training operations and a lot of good info can be found at: http://www.seaplanes.org/training/index.htm Jim |
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