
Seaplane Pilot
by Dale De Remer
Comprehensive text for pilots adding the seaplane rating to their license and for seaplane pilots to learn more, using full-color photography and illustrations throughout.
Seaplane Pilot covers everything you must learn to achieve the seaplane rating, along with tips, techniques, and advice from seasoned pilots. Seaplane Pilot thoroughly explains everything from preflight preparations and seamanship to takeoffs, landings, and emergency situations. Includes full color illustrations and photos throughout.
From the back cover:
Getting the seaplane rating is just pure fun. It provides the challenge of learning a new skill, freedom to land anywhere there is water, and the ability to enjoy the out-of-doors and access remote places. The seaplane pilot rating may be obtained as an initial pilot qualification, but most commonly is an add-on rating for pilots who already hold a single engine-land certificate. This book guides you through this process with plenty of tips, techniques, and advice from a pro along the way.
Reader Review:
Prof. DeRemer writes with remarkable clarity and purpose. The scope of topics and depth of coverage of such topics are extensive. Even the technical details do not obscure and confuse (you’ll also learn some new V speeds that may save your skin). It will keep your interest.
The vast collection of photographs adds excitement and painlessly helps convey good techniques (including, for example, 17 color photos plus 12 diagrams about tying knots, and, would you believe, photos of a floatplane departing on “roller skates”!). Many practical tables embellish the work product (for example, full page tables entitled "Summary of Takeoff Types" and "Surface Wind Force Table").
Enjoy SEAPLANE PILOT, you will treasure it for the years to come.
—MICHAEL S. BAUM, JD, MBA, CISSP
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