Originally Posted by
Big Pistons Forever
Excellent, another life ruined after just one fix
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You think you will be happy just doing the rating, but within weeks you will be jonesing for another chance to experience the thrills of float flying, rationalizing the costs and time because it will only be just this one more time.....
I used to be a pusher......errr I mean float plane instructor. It started to get ugly when I started using myself
(bought a Cessna 180 on floats I could not afford). Had to go cold turkey in the end.......
Certainly sea/float planes can be addictive but isn't flying anyway?
Many years ago I did a water rating in a Lake Teal, nearly all of it in the Thames estuary and having got the ticket, never bothered to use it as I had no real need for it. Never became really comfortable with the absence of brakes . . . .
However, more recently, I sat in the right hand seat of a Cessna 206 on floats for a couple of days flying in the NY Finger Lakes and Adirondaks which, of course, are ideal locations for such an a/c. Quite wonderful but dangerously resurrecting old addictions. I went home before I got into trouble.
