Seaplane Rating!
Airplane Single Engine Seaplane (ASES) Course* price is $2,500 and includes:
• 5 hours of aircraft rental
• 4 hours of flight instruction
• 5 hours of ground instruction
• The checkride (practical test)
*Additional instruction and/or aircraft rental will be billed at the aircraft dual wet rate.
Training is conducted in a Cessna 172 on straight floats, located at the Goodspeed Airport (42B), right on the Connecticut River!
Scheduling Note:
Training is ONLY conducted during the week (Monday-Friday) due to boat traffic on the Connecticut River during the weekends. Conducting training on the weekends would be a waste of everyone’s time because of the amount of boat traffic in the training area(s).
Seaplane Training Details
Comprehensive Training at a Fixed Cost
Pricing & Payment
Course Cost: $2500
A $200 non-refundable deposit to reserve your class date is required. The remaining payment is due upon arrival for training. Acceptable forms of payment are the following: American Express, MasterCard, Visa, Discover, cash, cashier’s check, money order, certified check, and traveler’s checks. These checks must be made out to “Learn To Fly CT”. Personal and company checks are not accepted.
Click here to Reserve by Submitting A Deposit
This will send you and us an email confirmation for the payment of the deposit. We will then reach out to you via email to schedule a date for the class.
Please note: We do not “have a DPE on staff.” We request scheduling the training at least 2 weeks in the future, from when you register for the course, so we can secure a DPE for your checkride on the 2nd day of training.
Goodspeed Airport-42B
Please note: We do not “have a DPE on staff.” We request scheduling the training at least 2 weeks in the future, from when you register for the course, so we can secure a DPE for your checkride on the 2nd day of training.
The course is scheduled to take 2 days, and the checkride/practical test is included in this timeframe.
Please come prepared to complete the training in the allotted time!
We will email the Course Guide to you after we receive confirmation of the deposit. If you don’t receive the Course Guide please email us at learn2flyct@gmail.com and we will get it to you ASAP!
- All flights are scheduled through Flight Circle (www.flightcircle.com)
- Clients need to have a Flight Circle account for us to schedule the flights. Paying the deposit will create an account in Flight Circle for you.
- Verify you are entering your information correctly. This is the information we will use to contact you!
- Training is conducted ONLY during the week (Monday-Friday) due to boat traffic on the Connecticut River and the other training areas.
TSA Requirement
We need to verify U.S. Citizenship prior to conducting any training. Please bring the applicable document(s) with you to the first day of training. Your CFI will make copies and provide you with the TSA Endorsement in your logbook.
To see which documents we can use to verify U.S. Citizenship, please click here to review our TSA details area.
The easiest document for us to use is an Enhanced Driver’s License (with the star in the upper right corner).
Tailwheel Training at Goodspeed!
We also have our J3 Cub located on the field!
Let us know if you’d like to schedule some time in our Cub or receive your Tailwheel Endorsement while you are with us for your Seaplane Rating!