We got more than than I tought we would overnight! Still snowing! We'll see! Come ski fly in Eastern Oregon.



CW

clippwagon wrote:We got more than than I tought we would overnight! Still snowing! We'll see! Come ski fly in Eastern Oregon.



CW

Give us Lat Lon for a ski friendly area? Looking mighty pretty.

It's been snowing pretty much all day. It's not "feet" yet but already more than I though we'd get! I may be eating crow for dinner by tomorrow night if it keeps going I'm guessing it's about 8"-10" but haven't stuck a tape on it to know for sure. I know I've shoveled a lot of it though.

I'm not a ski flyer and don't pay too much attention to good places to land with skiis but I belive there are folks on here that do. Maybe they'll chime in. I think Scolopax has talked about some good areas in the past. I'm pretty sure he doesn't have ski's for his 180 (yet ) but he's pretty saavy about that kind of stuff.



CW

SA Maule wrote:I am just curious, how do you stop the plane when it is on skis, and how do you keep it straight once your speed has dropped and you no longer have rudder authority?
in south Africa it might snow once every 10 years or so

Powder is a natural brake. For very hard media (ice/packed) put the wheels down if possible. The tail wheel ski works OK for turning but, easy to break or damage MLG because of twisting.

I only have about a total of (5) hours on hydraulic skis in Oregon. Just learning. The Scout is on amphibs right now and it takes me about (2) days to switch.

Uncle! This shinanagins is getting real It was mixed with a little freezing rain last night too. Still snowing!

This morning:


The front was shoveled clean last night:


CW

SA Maule wrote:Float flying, that's another thing I want to try someday,

I love flying floats. Very thankful I went to Wipaire for CSES and 2100A STC.. Amazing performance from Scout too.

Yeah! Looking good for Oregon.

6 inches of snow in Hood River. Clippwagon where are you and your foot of snow located? I'm ready for ski season! But they are going on my feet, not my plane.

Bring on the snow!

Ken

SA Maule wrote:It looks like fun, but apparently a bit tricky, never quite figured out what the principles are

I would actually recommend learning to snow ski first at a resort before entering in with an aircraft. Snow is extremely dangerous take small steps!

Waterboy wrote:6 inches of snow in Hood River. Clippwagon where are you and your foot of snow located? I'm ready for ski season! But they are going on my feet, not my plane.

Bring on the snow!

Ken

I'm in Terrebonne, five minutes from Smith Rock, five minutes from Redmond. The tape measure said 16" this morning, I think realistically it's more like 16"-18". I would imagine that the mountains have significantly more and Bachelor will likely open up soon! The news reported that someone tried to climb Middle Sister two days ago, fell 300ft and now rescuers can't get to him because of the weather. What was he thinking???

I'm shoveled out, time to go help some others!

CW

I climbed at Smith Rock! Stayed in the $2/night camp ground with the warm showers. About a (3) hour drive from the Coast.

Willamette pass FEB-2014;


Dawn Patrol:

The news reported that someone tried to climb Middle Sister two days ago, fell 300ft and now rescuers can't get to him because of the weather. What was he thinking???

I used to work as a rescue technician in Yosemite National Park, we liked to jokingly refer to it as interfering with natural selection. Good luck to the stuck climber, the storm was well forecast.

I know Terrebonne. Ive climbed at Smith Rocks and flew the Forest Service Repell helicopter out of Prineville.

Skiing on Mount Hood this weekend for sure.

Evidence of the end of fire season in central Oregon

http://wildfiretoday.com/2014/11/14/evi ... re-season/

SA Maule wrote:I am just curious, how do you stop the plane when it is on skis, and how do you keep it straight once your speed has dropped and you no longer have rudder authority?
in south Africa it might snow once every 10 years or so

And that is what makes ski flying so much fun, and unlike water ops (where I imagine the water drag on touchdown is somewhat consistent) snow conditions as per what amount of braking action you can count on varies tremendously. Throw in the fact that the wind direction is guessed at, flat light making it hard to really see what your getting into, and maybe some double fall line 14% slopes, and it NEVER gets boring. One thing I do know, stomping on the brakes, no matter how hard, does not help at all, but it is a hard habit to (sorry) break.

SA Maule wrote:I am tentatively planning a trip to USA and canada next year October would like to get a float and ski rating in my logbook. Would be fun to have one in South Africa .
Want to fly to the north pole as well some day.

No rating for skis. Just floats in USA. Get good instruction regardless of the laws! Be very cautions.

SA Maule wrote:Thanks, I will never be able to use it in as but want to do it just for fun, new experience and all that

You are welcome to stop by and check out my ship. PM if you are coming to Oregon.

I hope there isn't enough snow for ski flying in October... That would make for a rough fall.

SA Maule wrote:PS. What's the hunting and fishing like in Oregon

It can be pretty good if you're willing to put the time in. I've hunted with the plane too!



CW

A1Skinner wrote:I hope there isn't enough snow for ski flying in October... That would make for a rough fall.

Early October the lakes are still warm enough for floats. But, I would put on skis about mid December until February.

SA Maule wrote:PS. What's the hunting and fishing like in Oregon

I love Kona, Hawaii! Kind of far and expensive for just fishing. You could always watch lava destroy villages too on the East side.