On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 20:14:34 GMT, "Bob Gardner" wrote:

I don't want to extrapolate my own seaplane training to the whole wide
world, but no solo time is required and I didn't get any. Considering how
the insurance industry has come down on water operations generally, I wonder
if any float-plane school allows students to solo, and if any owner-student
has a policy permitting flight before the rating is earned.

When I did my seaplane rating, I, too, did not solo prior to getting the
rating. The rating was in an aircraft which I owned, and there was no
insurance restriction. However, the a/c was a Lake Amphibian, and I had
been flying it on land prior to obtaining the sea rating. The policy,
IIRC, was the usual "named pilots" or defined experience. But there was no
restriction as to me, as a 'named pilot' being able to conduct water
operations.


Ron (EPM) (N5843Q, Mooney M20E) (CP, ASEL, ASES, IA)