Good point, however I believe you do a fair amount of flying as they upgade you from right seat to the Beaver. Also, flying a cheiftan certainly doesn't help you fly a single engine on floats but get's you hours. It's a tricky one.

What about this, your offered a job on the docks working for 1 to 1 1/2 years before upgrade to right seat Twin Otter. You've also got an offer to start right seat on a Cheiftan. Where you want to be is on floats and although you stand to build time on a Cheiftan this will get you no closer to a flo...

Thanks for all the help everyone. This has answered some questions and it's nice to see people willing to lend a hand. Any more advice would be appreciated, keep it coming.

Just had a few questions about making the trip up to north western ontario in hopes of getting my first float job. A little background first; I've already made loads of phone calls and sent both emails and hard copy resume package's. Nothing definite yet as I'm certainly in the low time catagory, 27...