I don't see the distinction between career advancement, and not.
If you're flying a Citation but spend a few dollars on a checkout in a Seneca, you're still adding to the same logbook, still enhancing your own skill.
As you've chosen to get some seaplane training and conventional gear exeperience, you're doing nothing more than investing in yourself. It may not be a type rating, but training in one area always enhances another. Flying a glider may not teach you about flying the ILS...but then again it might; you're concentating on flying the wing, and it carries over to all else that you do.
Flying a seaplane requires one to manage energy in a different way when water taxiing, much the same way one manages a taxi on ice or on snow, or a taxi in a large airplane that can't be stopped in an instant. It carries over. Stable approaches to glassy water are very much like a low visibility transition past minimums into the TDZ, and the stick and rudder meat and potatos of flying are never wasted.
Even as a kid, I saw every hour flown as if it were an hour of college...it was one step closer to getting the job and the life of flying that I wanted...which is what every hour of college would have done. I didn't see one as enhancing this or that; it's all the same. Learning caligraphy enhances one's ability to concentrate, to learn, to pay attention to detail, to express, and in turn enhances one's ability to perform a preflight, time a magneto, and yes, fly an ILS.
I'd have suggested a few other things but it's most important that you've recognized what you want, and gone after it. Absolutely nothing wrong with that, and a wise investment, I'd say. I'd probably have said go add on a gyoplane rating, or tack on a glider CFI...but sounds like you've made a good choice. Have fun. Time spent in flight will not be deducted from your lifespan.
If you're flying a Citation but spend a few dollars on a checkout in a Seneca, you're still adding to the same logbook, still enhancing your own skill.
As you've chosen to get some seaplane training and conventional gear exeperience, you're doing nothing more than investing in yourself. It may not be a type rating, but training in one area always enhances another. Flying a glider may not teach you about flying the ILS...but then again it might; you're concentating on flying the wing, and it carries over to all else that you do.
Flying a seaplane requires one to manage energy in a different way when water taxiing, much the same way one manages a taxi on ice or on snow, or a taxi in a large airplane that can't be stopped in an instant. It carries over. Stable approaches to glassy water are very much like a low visibility transition past minimums into the TDZ, and the stick and rudder meat and potatos of flying are never wasted.
Even as a kid, I saw every hour flown as if it were an hour of college...it was one step closer to getting the job and the life of flying that I wanted...which is what every hour of college would have done. I didn't see one as enhancing this or that; it's all the same. Learning caligraphy enhances one's ability to concentrate, to learn, to pay attention to detail, to express, and in turn enhances one's ability to perform a preflight, time a magneto, and yes, fly an ILS.
I'd have suggested a few other things but it's most important that you've recognized what you want, and gone after it. Absolutely nothing wrong with that, and a wise investment, I'd say. I'd probably have said go add on a gyoplane rating, or tack on a glider CFI...but sounds like you've made a good choice. Have fun. Time spent in flight will not be deducted from your lifespan.
