Ice Pilots NWT
 

This new show on the Canadian History Channel looks really good. Basically yet another reality show except that this documents the daily operations of Buffalo Airways up in the Northern Territories.

Unfortunately we can't watch here in the US. How can I get around this little problem of being able to watch episodes online?

Videos - History Television

When you click on the video it says "You are not allowed stinky American, eh"

Wow...thanks for the link...Nice thing to see and remember for me...I've been there...with Air Inuit in the nineties with DHC-6 Twin Otters and HS-748.
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Hope they start putting it on the internet or showing it down here.

Link no worky for me either. :(

My best imitation :D

Little did my dad know 30+ years ago when he bought a cheap set of wood water skis to use behind our family boat, that I would someday modify them for skiplane use. :D

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Zef and Tim those are some great pics. Joe I say Tim has to do his own version called Waterski Experimental Pilots Ohio until we get Ice Pilots NWT.

Use a Canadian proxy server or bit torrent?

Tim, Is that FAA approved? ;)

Its experimental, so no FAA approval required.

I tried to watch them as well and its denied if you are not in Canada. Looks like Bit Torrent in the end!

Holy weird ski installation....Here in Canada, you can't just install that kind of thing on an amateur built aircraft (experimental in US) just need supporting data to get them approved for installation. It's a non-sense that you can't get access to the Ice Pilots episodes on line down south of the border. I will do some search about it and let you know more soon.....SmileWavy

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I did use AC 43.13-1B as a guide. :D This is an "ultralight", but I am pretty sure installing skis on an "experimental" is OK, but one might have to jump through a hoop or two with the feds if the skis were not part of the package when you first licensed the aircraft. I have not needed to deal with any experimental regulations in a long time so I can't say for sure. I do know that a major change such a prop/engine combination on an experimental requires some dealings with the feds which I believe results in a new flight test period being assigned that must be flown off before one can continue free use of the aircraft. If one goes with a certified engine prop combination the test time is maybe 25 hours while a true experimental ombination results in a 40 hour time to be flown off...... Like I said, it has been awhile, but I think this is how it works.

As soon as we get some decent snow, I will have to get some video footage of some under 50' takeoffs into a nice cold headwind. Even though skis in some snow conditions can be pretty draggy on most ski planes, this lightweight Minimax when flown around here on a cold typically windy winter day just leaps into the air. Advance throttle... raise tail slightly... yank back and you are flying.... 5 seconds maybe.

The Minimax has no "suspension" other than the low air pressure in the tires, so when the fields get rippled with frozen skinned drifts, the plane stays in the hangar, but when we get a few inches, my grass runway stays smooth and when we get 6"+ of fresh snow, the world is a runway (farm fields, friend's back yards etc) until the snow gets drifted and crusty.

No snow yet in Montreal...The ski flying season get smaller and smaller as years pass. I remember in the nineties, my Taylorcraft was flying on ski from frozen lakes around the December 10...!!!
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Yep, down here in NW Ohio, winters are not what they used to be snowfall-wise either. As a kid in the 70's, we usually had "decent"snowcover (at least a few inches.... enough to ride snowmobiles all winter) mid December thru the end of February. We still have really cold spells, but we don't get nearly as much snow as I would like.

Cant watch Vids in the USA apparently, bummer looks good to me.

Todd :)

But its snowing in Houston! Global warming my assets!

Nice pics Zef!

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