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 -
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."
AOPA Magazine, September 2002 Volume 45 / Number 9
Fly in "canyons where glaciers, mountains, and lakes
are stacked together in narrow sheer-walled valleys."
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
