Alaska Float Ratings

Capture A New Dimension of Seaplane Experience

Earn your seaplane rating in the rugged Alaska mountains.

We're saving the front seat for you.

Every flight, every minute is another mountain flying experience - in a Super Cub on floats.

Learn mountain flying and seaplane flying the right way.

Live Your Dream -

Fly the Adventure!

Experience Real Bush,

Mountain, and

Seaplane Flying in the

Mountainous Backcountry

of Moose Pass, Alaska

Fly one of our three PA-18 Super Cubs -

"The Ultimate Alaskan Bush Plane."

Float flying here is an adventure. Check this out for one of Darlene's (one our instructors), flights with a student earlier this summer - Spot Adventures.

What a great way to get your Complex Time for your Commercial and

your Commercial SES - all at the same time.

Burke and Evan did the summer of 2011.

Two of our earlier gradutates this summer - Megan from Atlanta and Joe from San Diego -

Joe from San Diego

Megan from Atlanta

Challenging Backcountry Flying

"It was like my primary military flight instruction. I wouldn't have gone anywhere else."

Joe, Navy helicopter pilot, June 2011

"Wish I'd signed up for the ten hour course. I would have loved to had time to explore more lakes in the mountains."

Megan, commuter pilot, June 2011

"I've had a lot of flights in my over 10,000 hours. The last exploring flight I had here was a Flight of a Lifetime!"

Chris, UPS pilot, June 2011

My brother, Jeff, raved about his experience in Moose Pass. I went elsewhere and was very disappointed. I''m going to Moose Pass next summer for sure."

Tim, July 2011

"Powerful forces created the extraordinary topography of Alaska's Kenai Peninsula.

Mother Nature had also created one of Earth's most challenging and

spectacular aviation environments."

Read the Water, Floatplane Flying in Alaska by Patrick Mathews

AOPA Magazine, September 2002 Volume 45 / Number 9

Fly in "canyons where glaciers, mountains, and lakes

are stacked together in narrow sheer-walled valleys."

Going for Water Wings by Barbara Rowell

Plane and Pilot, January 1994

Welcome to our Website

I can't emphasize enough that for you to really

appreciate what we're offering and what you would

miss by not flying with us, that you must read the articles

quoted above by Barbara, Going for Water Wings,

and Patrick, Read the Water, Floatplane

Flying in Alaska,

and the other articles written by our former students. Vern

"An adventure the moment you leave the dock!"

B.N. former Navy carrier pilot, now retired airline pilot

"Alaska Float Ratings has the most professional,

comprehensive, and organized course

I have experienced in the civilian world."

P. N., former USAF F-15 pilot, now airline pilot

J.J. Frey, one of the most knowledgeable people in the world

about seaplane flying, a sought-after speaker,

author of the best selling book "How to Fly Floats,"

and former President of EDO Corporation says,

"If you want more than just a rating, Then go see Vern.

I highly recommend Alaska Float Ratings."

Find out why we say on take off: "Ready to rock and roll."

Click on Registration for date availability.

800 478 - 1449 or email us.

"I will redefine your expectations of flight training." Vern

Nervous When Flying Below the Mountain Tops?

"You do not rise to the occassion,

You rise to the level of your training and practise."

I came to realize this after years as a CFI, and

Director of Training for a commuter airlines.

Vern Kingsford

Would you like to feel comfortable when flying in the mountains?

Do you want to improve your flying skills, or emergency procedures?

Do you sometimes lack confidence, not sure what to do next?

This is the flight school for you!

Read what Karen, owner of a CE-172, discovered when she came to Moose Pass. You can read why she says to earn your seaplane rating here when you click on Read More below.

Icebergs from Cub

Important Message to Alaska Pilots regarding Lake Hood

Vern%20signature%20photo "The airlines and the military have invested millions of dollars designing simulators to provide realistic training devices. I just moved to Trail Lake to provide you a genuine mountain flying and bush flying experience."

I love Lake Hood. When I first started flying as a charter pilot/guide for the late Jack Lee’s Air Service and instructing off Lake Hood in 1973, watching and listening to the float planes, especially the Beavers, thrilled me, and it still does.

Cub Flying to Bench and Johnson Lakes

But by 1991, watching, listening, waiting for ATC clearance, the long taxi, waiting for Rust’s fleet or the gaggle of float planes on weekends, was costing my students valuable time from their dual session. Also it was cutting into their time and money they had budgeted for their lessons. Now, in 2011, it is even more congested.

Real Alaska Flying

What do I mean by "Real Alaska Bush Flying"?

That our location in this rugged mountainous environment provides you the ultimate conditions to experience Alaska Bush Flying, mountain flying, and earn an SES rating too. You will not have ATC, ATIS, Unicom, or even a windsock. You are on your own. You will not have runways, either paved or dirt. You wlll determine the wind direction and velocity.

You will have actual tiny, remote, mountain lakes midst steep, tight, narrow canyons, where you will learn to read the water and choose where you must land. You will experience the "Real Deal." What I call "Real Alaska Bush Flying," or some call it flying in the Wild Alaska.

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