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Originally Posted by zmiller4  Skycougar,
I know of the place you're talking about, and I don't think you need to worry about their experience. They're a legit school, and with most legit seaplane schools insurance will make sure they have adequate floatplane time--there's no way someone could get insured to instruct without quite a bit of floatplane time. You can ask how many float hours the instructors there have if you'd like, but I wouldn't worry about it with an established school like that.
I don't know if you have any flying experience, but I'd strongly recommend against trying to start flying in a floatplane. It's a *lot* more expensive, and it's definately more challenging than flying a land plane. If you're just interested in flying around for fun and not necessarily earning a rating, I'd strongly recommend NorCal Aviation up near San Andreas. It's a smaller, easier-to-fly (and much cheaper!) airplane than the school in Sausalito, and the owner/instructor is a super-cool woman who's one of the best instructors I know. PM me if you have any questions about the whole process. |
Thanks for all of the info Z!
I have heard of that woman up at San Andreas! Does she teach flying "land" planes as well, or would I be better off staying closer to home and going up to somewhere like Sonoma Skypark? I really do want to learn how to fly a floatplane though, mainly so I can fly around and land on lakes and bays.