Trains and Seaplanes
Good morning Ppruners
I'm planning a train trip across Canada, and want to combine it with some floatplane flying. I'm not expecting to fly solo, but do want instruction and handling time . I have a rating for my EASA PPL, but all my floatplane experience has been on a large lake in a Super Cub on amphibious floats.
I would very much like to do some river landings, and some more remote areas on lakes. The plan would be to do the flying somewhere reasonably accessible from the route of the train journey, which is from Vancouver to Halifax, via Kamloops, Jasper, Edmonton, Saskatoon, Winnipeg, Toronto, Montreal, and Quebec.
Ideally close enough that I wouldn't need a hire car, and with at least slightly affordable accommodation.
Your advice please, on best places, schools, time of year, and how long I should plan to get five to ten hours flying? The aircraft doesn't need to be anything exotic.