Not that AI could produce such a thing anyway…

Looks pretty real to me. I'm not aware of ski approvals for an Ercoupe, but there are tons of old approvals on some of these old airplanes. I doubt it'd be a great performer, but that's a pretty long strip.....

mtv wrote:Looks pretty real to me. I'm not aware of ski approvals for an Ercoupe, but there are tons of old approvals on some of these old airplanes. I doubt it'd be a great performer, but that's a pretty long strip.....

I swapped the media to a youtube vid because the instagram was forcing the app open. Same guy i think.

I miss ski flying.

Got my skis on last week. I love ski flying!!!

Don’t underestimate the tricycle ski bird…

Over ten years of driving my tripacer through all kinds of ice and snow, deep wet and brutal cold, turning on a dime then gettin out to help my my cub buddies get spun around, full control on crosswind glair ice-just push the yoke to the panel and point her where you need to go…

When I first geared her up I had a chat with Jim at TRA, he ran a 206 on skis and his son still does, anyway he gave me some pointers that kept me from doing anything too stupid, only one I recall at the moment was don’t be in a hurry to get the nose ski up in the deeper stuff, let it take some weight and help with the floatation.



Rocket

I almost bought a set of skis for my 150 when I owned it. Waited a couple of days too long to pull the trigger. They are out there for tricycle gear, but not easy to find. After ski flying now for a number of winters it’s probably good I didn’t….

Pete

I don't remember details, but someone sold a ski kit for Ercoupes in the 60's. No idea how many sets were sold or when this video was made.

Not only are there skis for an Ercoupe, they put JATO bottles on one too. Here's a video of that insanity:

Had one land at our place last week, (SW Michigan). Landed, turned around for a back taxi and took off. I don't know who it was or anything about the airplane. Performed surprising well.

I am trying to figure out the rigging. Maybe I just can’t see them but it doesn’t look like there are any front cables. Looks like just a kind of shock absorber/strut thing on the back of the skis. Am I missing something?

Pete

pburns wrote:I am trying to figure out the rigging. Maybe I just can’t see them but it doesn’t look like there are any front cables. Looks like just a kind of shock absorber/strut thing on the back of the skis. Am I missing something?

Pete

Good eye.

The device in the back is called a “rigger” and it’s basically a double acting cartridge spring. There is a front safety cable and if go to the Ski section of AC43.13 it shows a diagram of of how to rig the nose ski and how to strap the front safety cable to the shock strut/fork so it doesn’t whip around.

If you zoom in on mine you will see it. I used a custom bungy cord I made up.

To be honest if the rigger broke and the nose ski went nose down I figure all bets are off if one was up in the air, if one hit hard enough to break it on the ground I’m thinking yard sale

One more thing, the rigger on mine is not the original per the airglas stc, back when I did mine Gary L couldn’t find one and didn’t recall who made them and he could t find any drawings etc. I ended up using one others were using for a 182/206, it was used as the federal main wheel ski shock.


Rocket