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Commercial Pilot Land & Sea

I did it. Today I passed my checkride and am now one of the newest Land and Sea Commercial Pilot. I'm up at Sheble Aviation in Fort Mohave where I spent the last 3 days going up and down the Colorado River and Lake Havasu learning to land a plane on the water. It takes a spacial rating to do that. I also received my land rating. The flight school up here is really great at being very practical about what you need to know to be a competent pilot and pass the check ride with no fluff which is what I like.

Being a Commercial pilot and an Airline Pilot is a distinction that a lot of people don't make. I'm a commercial pilot meaning I can fly people or goods for hire. That doesn't mean I can start advertising for that though I have to be a charter to do that. What I can do with a commercial license are things like crop dusting, banner/glider towing, areal photography/site seeing flights, things like that.

I didn't fly this Beech 18 but I got to ride in the back on the first day

fueling the Beech




Docking

inside the Beech 18

This is day two and the plane I learned in is behind me called the Lake Buccaneer

inside

my instructor and I

Lake Havasu 

doing touch-n-go's on the Colorado River on the way down to Blythe

Blythe Airport (BLH)

I flew up here because the drive here is 5 1/2 hrs and the flight is 2. But I should have just drove I was planning to be home on Friday night but because of high winds on Thursday we didn't have time to finish on Friday and had to be push for today. I got done this after noon and was prepping the plane to leave and one of the mags were bad (one of the 2 pieces that supply spark to the spark plugs) and since I was going to be flying into the night I decided not to go. so one more night here then back to Mesa after the mechanic fixes it tomorrow.
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paula said…
So proud of you. Good job, looks like lots of fun.
Monday, January 18, 2010 1:18:00 PM
missykac said…
Congratulations on becoming a land and sea commercial pilot! Your wife and son live with a totally awesome and smart guy! (Maybe a bit of a daredevil,too.) You know what you want to do and we're proud you're going for it.
Sunday, January 24, 2010 7:05:00 PM
Anonymous said…
How was Sheble Aviation? I am looking at getting my commercial soon and did not know if it is worth the money, but it is only 3 days. I am seen mixed reviews.
Wednesday, July 17, 2013 10:08:00 PM
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