On Jan 28, 10:34*am, Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
"Robert M. Gary" wrote in news:3df80bdb-00ac-49f4-baa5-
:

Yeah, if you're aware of the depth it's not so bad. I've been in snow tha
deep without skis and the landing can be tricky, but the airplane will
definitely stay upright if you touch down slowly and keep the nose up.
Getting out is a bigger problem unless you are very light and have a lot of
room and a bit of horseposer, but I've gotten a 150 out of snow that
deep.It's definitely a dicey operation though.

When I was flying the PA-18 my greatest fear was getting water on the
top of the floats. As long as you kept your touch down speed low and
your nose high you were fine, but if you let the floats dig in you
could end up inverted quickly (so I'm told). The tricky part was doing
so when the water was glassy since we didn't have a VSI. You just held
the nose up, hanging on the prop, until you heard a splash. If your
butt felt a sink before you hit you added power. I would assume that
snow flying must be similar.

-Robert