"Robert M. Gary" wrote in
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On Jan 28, 10:34*am, Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
"Robert M. Gary" wrote in
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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 o
f
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.


Don;t know since my float flying is very lmited and I'm not rated, but
yeah, I guess so. The takeoff is a sort of short field deal. plenty of
flap and full aft stick, the idea being to get it up and out of the snow
ASAP. almost planing on it. I've never done it in a taildragger, but I
think that would be more of a problem. I've flown taildraggers on skis
though and that's a non-event. It's incredibly easy, in fact.

Bertie