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Vern Kingsford, the owner, (and more importantly the DPE) started the training off by introducing us (class of four for the week) to the instructors. The drive in from Anchorage was beautiful, and I spotted several super cubs ready to go down at the docks. So, there I was on Labor Day, at 0900 ready to go. I had chosen a package that included 10 hours of flight time, covering 4-5 days of training.
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I put down my deposit and anxiously waited all summer. Their website, as well as the ad I had cut out of the Pacific Flyer newspaper promised “real bush flying,” “taught by real working bush pilots.” Research led me to Moose Pass Alaska, and “Alaska Float Ratings”, which is part of the Scenic Mountain Air operation. I must admit I also had the “Walter Mitty” syndrome, and wanted to see what being a “Bush Pilot” was about. That meant either Washington State, or Alaska. I made the decision that if I was going to learn to fly floats I wanted to do it where float flying was a way of life, “the real deal” so to speak.
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This meant most likely Lake Havasu/Colorado River, or a couple of locations farther north in California. I began to research, and initially started looking at those locations closest to me here in the Los Angeles area. Being a big history buff, as well as a fan of anything nautical, I started looking at the seaplane rating as something “fun” to do, while exposing me to a different side of aviation, and hopefully “sharpening” my skills as a pilot. I still wanted to complete my instrument and commercial instruction, but I wasn’t ready to dive back into that quite yet. A couple of false starts, and finally back to flying with something close to regularity happened in the fall of 2003. When the stars realigned and I had the time, opportunity, (and of course money) to get back “into” flying, several years had passed. These were all things that forced my flying onto the back-burner. Change in employment, Change in marital status, a long distance move. I got started, as was many hours into my training. Instrument-Commercial-Multi, were all things I viewed as being on the horizon. When I completed my private in 1997 I planned on taking the usual route of adding additional ratings/privileges. I am a low time (250 hrs.) private pilot.