Multi Rating On Floats

Adam Oke · Post by **Adam Oke** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 9:15 pm

Why not kill two birds with one stone?

Who has done their multi rating on a float plane? Did you do it privately, FTU, or did your company train you on their equipment?

Let me know what you have to say.

twotter · Post by **twotter** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 2:37 am

Why would you? The only airplane I can think that would be suitable is the Aztec on floats, Nomad as they call it. Gotta be cheaper to do them individually..

Driving Rain · Post by **Driving Rain** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 5:27 am

I trained two pilots for a multi endorcement on a D 18S on floats. Both had their seaplane endorcements however.

Adam Oke · Post by **Adam Oke** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 7:51 am

twotter wrote:Gotta be cheaper to do them individually..

Sorry maybe I didn't throw enough description out there. Already having your seaplane endorsement, killing two birds with one stone; building multi time and multi float time....all couple hours of it, but it's still a couple more hours than you started with.

I noticed that Aztec in the classifieds and thought of doing this. Am I out to lunch here or is it not valuable at all?

Driving Rain wrote:I trained two pilots for a multi endorcement on a D 18S on floats. Both had their seaplane endorcements however.

Was this a company training new multi pilots or a rental. I'd be interested to hear how much they're rent out at and how many hours each of them had taken.

Driving Rain · Post by **Driving Rain** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 8:31 am

Was this a company training new multi pilots or a rental. I'd be interested to hear how much they're rent out at and how many hours each of them had taken.

They were company pilots who were moving up from the Cessna's and the Beaver. It was two different companies in NWO and yes both are still in business today.
This was in the good ol'days back in the last century when your word was your bond, there was no training bonds or paying money up front and insurance companies didn't call the tune.
You might not believe this, one of those companies gave me my seaplane endorcement.
The time each guy took was about 10 hours, we used freight haul revenue trips for some of it.

Adam Oke · Post by **Adam Oke** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 3:42 pm

Driving Rain wrote:...You might not believe this, one of those companies gave me my seaplane endorcement.

Oh I believe it.

Believe this or not.....even to this day some companies are still good for that. I know someone who got their float from a company in the Red Lake area. All hope isn't lost quite yet

With no training bond either.