Archive for Seaplane
Beech 18 Video Library
The Beech 18 Training Video Library is up and ready to go. Please view the below videos prior to your arrival and it will greatly enhance your overall training experience while getting your Multi-engine Sea rating.
This should get you started. Please contact us if you have any questions.
Beech 18 WOW!
Turn up your speakers because this is a must see and hear set of video’s from Sheble Aviation. Pilot flight training with a takeoff and landing of the Beech 18 on floats! If you are a pilot ,,, WARNING ,,, you may end up buying a ticket to come visit us TODAY to fly this amazing bird!
Seaplane Ops in the Lake Buccaneer
Here is a series of great videos from our latest Single Engine Seaplane SES operations on the Colorado River during pilot flight training at Sheble Aviation for a commercial single engine land and sea rating.
Seaplane Rating in the Desert with Sheble Aviation
Do you need to build your complex time for your commercial rating? Have you thought about doing just that in a seaplane?
For the money you are spending to build your complex time, you could do your seaplane and commercial training at the same time. Sheble Aviation offers a training package where you earn your commercial license for land and sea – instead of just commercial land. Contact us for more information and availability.
Derwood Legenza, CFI , CFI – Glider and Seaplane
Beech 18 on floats – Get a seaplane add-on rating at Sheble Aviation
At Sheble Aviation, Beech 18 operations includes flight training on the Colorado River, Lake Havasu and Lake Mead. When you come for your seaplane rating, make sure to pack your water shoes, sun screen and prepare to have fun in the AZ/NV sun. Your lunch break might also include a barbecue on the beach – while you continue your training and ground school ops.
Beech 18 on Floats Lands at Lake Mead, NV; Seaplane Rating
Joel Smith coming in for a landing on Lake Mead, NV. The Beech 18 is only one of two in the US and the multi-engine seaplane rating is offered year round at Sheble Aviation.
Sheble Aviation is on YouTube!
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Here is a recent Beech 18 takeoff from Lake Mead during pilot training.
Beech 18 Seaplane – First Landing with Sheble Aviation July 2007
JoJo and Flavio landing in Lake Winnebago, Osh Kosh, Wisconsin. Sheble Aviation had just acquired the Beech 18 on floats, flying it back to home base and made this diversion.
Seaplane Rating on the Colorado
Last week we ran two seaplane ratings in consecutive days. Pilot training is our business and we do it well. The best approach for getting your seaplane rating is to do the single engine sea on the first day followed by the multi engine sea on the next two.
Flying the smaller Super Cub first allows for the pilot to grasp on the overall operation in a smaller single engine type aircraft. Conducting multiple takeoffs, landing and taxing operations on day one followed by the checkride itself makes for a much smoother transition to day two.
Although Sheble Air doesn’t require this order of checkout it is highly recommended based on their 30 + years experience flying these aircraft.
Beech 18 Rating
Getting a Multi-engine Seaplane (MES) rating is a big enough deal as it is but what if you got to get it in a 1952 Beech 18 on floats! Here are a few shots from our last “river ops” rating:
Beech 18 with hammocks deployed! One of only two of these types of aircraft and what is even more important is the fact that Sheble operates up and down the Colorado River! You will get real world, no kidding, hands on flying in some of the toughest areas to navigate.
Our Super Cub on “river ops” mission.
