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Originally Posted by BlueSideUp
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.
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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.