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Deep snow wheel landing question answered

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Damn!! already..... it is pretty early in the season.
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At least it wasn't a Maule. Our insurance is high enough.

Yo, hold my beer and watch me az I skillfull LEE land in this deep snow! I gots me some dim 31 incher Al E ass kin george bush tyeers. Izes can surf in dazs water too. foore berz foore da water, and fife berz foore da snozs, iffen ya knoz whats eye meen mean oh da hell wiff it. :?
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Must have been an incompetent back-country pilot [-X

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Its a matter of when not if when playing around in snow on tires. Bet that guy could have bought a real nice pair of retractable ski's for the repair bill he will have.
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From Idaho. Someone here knows him probably. This is all your fault Wup! Them 31s make us think our dicks are bigger than they really are. :D
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OregonMaule wrote:From Idaho. Someone here knows him probably. This is all your fault Wup! Them 31s make us think our dicks are bigger than they really are. :D


May as well blame Hannah, too while your at it, Rob [-X (that's if Hannah sold the Scout to the poor fella)

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And lets not forget Mauleguy for making those inspirational videos. :D
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Oh wait lets not forget Nike..."Just Do IT"..... they have gotten me in more trouble.....
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BTW Russ, if your reading this, please don't take us serious! Glad you walked away with no injuries!!
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One more A holeness out of me and I'm done :^o

I wonder if Russ used his cell phone to get a med-flight to his house? [-X

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We have the mile high club. Not what your thinking you perv.

We are getting so many of the upside down in the snow stories I think they can form a club.

It is pretty exclusive but new pledges are being accepted. If you stand it up on the nose and bend the prop that doesn't count. Got to go all the way over.

I don't want to be a member of that club.

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That would be the "flip flop club" Founded by our friends at Super Cub . Org
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That's five miles from my house. We've only got 3-4 inches of snow, must have hit a drift or froze some slop on his brakes.
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I was figgeren there was more to the story as it don't look to bad snow wise....
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Nosedragger wrote:That's five miles from my house. We've only got 3-4 inches of snow, must have hit a drift or froze some slop on his brakes.


Maybe, or maybe the existing snow, whatever depth it was, was too deep. Wrong consistancy also perhaps. Maybe the pilot will inform us?

The only thing worse would be to do this while still on the Bushwheels, and meanwhile back in the hangar the wheel skis you've been too busy to put on hang on the wall! That's my situation, I keep thinking it's going to warm back up so the Airstreaks are still on. This incident almost makes me want to make the switchover #-o I'd be interested to hear how it made the media, when it happened on a private strip.
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Probably a fisherman saw it and instantly turned an incident into an accident.
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Nosedragger wrote:That's five miles from my house. We've only got 3-4 inches of snow, must have hit a drift or froze some slop on his brakes.


Maybe, or maybe the existing snow, whatever depth it was, was too deep. Wrong consistancy also perhaps. Maybe the pilot will inform us?

The only thing worse would be to do this while still on the Bushwheels, and meanwhile back in the hangar the wheel skis you've been too busy to put on hang on the wall! That's my situation, I keep thinking it's going to warm back up so the Airstreaks are still on. This incident almost makes me want to make the switchover #-o I'd be interested to hear how it made the media, when it happened on a private strip.



Media listens to police scanners and thats probably how they found out.... Also.... look at the pic,,, see the law enforcement Tahoe in the background.... Snow could have not been that bad as they drove it right up the incident site. Poor guy though... looks like the wing is tweaked out on the end of it.. :roll:
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One half mile from my house. Four inches of snow. Maybe a flatter and longer ABW.
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Snow consistency is the #1 factor. If it's hard, sticky or crusty, even just a small amount can be a problem. Light and fluffy, or even just slushy to a certain amount are usually not much of an issue. It's the crusty or weird sticky consistency stuff that will get ya'

Mileage varies! :D

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