Rarely does a student pilot have the opportunity to fly with experienced instructors who have been taught and guided by an instructor/examiner with nearly 18,000 hours, over 7,500 hours on floats, and with over 37 years of flying in Alaska. You will get just such an opportunity with us at Alaska Float Ratings. Our instructors are also working Part 135 bush pilots. They are using the same techniques all summer long that they're teaching you. Each of our instructors are chosen for their skills, experience, dedication, and teaching abilities.

Darlene Kellogg: Great instructors shouldn’t be this nice. Darlene was the Los Angeles FSDO's Certified Flight Instructor of the Year in 1997. (We're not bragging, just fact.) With her over 16,000 hours of flying time I want you to read what she has to say.

"My first summer instructing in Moose Pass was the first time in my entire flying career of more than 29 years that I wasn’t current on instruments or wheels! But I loved it. I learned in a Luscombe; I have taught private, instrument, and commercial pilots in single engine, multi-eninge and tail draggers. I have 11,000 hours of instruction given. I've flown most models of Lear Jets, both charter and corporate. Teaching floats in a Super Cub in Moose Pass, Alaska, has been the most fun and challenging I’ve experienced. I can’t wait for summer to get here. I’ll be back in Moose Pass again next year.

In May 2010 I flew the Luscombe from California to Alaska. Only spent four nights at Fort St. John on the Alaska-Canada Highway. Saw snow on the wings of my plane for the very first time. I had a great trip."

Duane Hallman: Duane Is a “been-there-done-that” kind of pilot. Duane has been working with me for over 25 years. He is the best of the best. He will tell you he doesn’t like instructing (he's also Scenic Mountain Air's Chief Pilot), all the while teaching you things you’d wished you’d learned before. You will after a lesson with Duane, ask for more.

"I have more time on floats than wheels. I couldn’t help but do that when I fly all summer in a Cessna U206 on floats and teach single engine sea ratings in Super Cubs --- all in the mountains and weather conditions of Moose Pass and Prince William Sound. This spot can be the most beautiful and sometimes the most challenging. If it’s too challenging, I stay on the ground. I'd like to think I've learned something in my nearly 28 years of flying in Alaska."