Jim Burns wrote:
: There's a perfect example of why you should wipe snow and ice off your
: airplane sitting up at KSTE. So much ice and snow had accumulated on the
: tail of a 172 there that the nose gear is completely off the ground and the
: tail is laying on the ground frozen in a drift.

Happens 1-2x per year even here in VA. We get 6-12" of snow and all the
Cessnas on the tie-down line have their their noses in the air and tails on the
ground. Pipers generally seem more nose-heavy so they usually stay put. Fortunately
it usually melts off in a day or two if you brush off the big stuff.

-Cory

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* Cory Papenfuss *
* Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student *
* Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University *
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