PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - How thick must ice be to land on it?
View Single Post
Old 27th Dec 2010, 03:00
  #16 (permalink)  
Pilot DAR
Moderator
 
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Ontario, Canada
Age: 63
Posts: 5,627
Received 64 Likes on 45 Posts
Yup!

I flew my local lake (Simcoe) this afternoon. The ice was so clear in places, I could see all the details of the bottom clear as could be. Zero sense of how thick the ice was, I would have not imagined that a view so clear could exist with ice of any thickness. Open water is two miles away for where I'm looking....

I flew home and drove back to walk it. With the ice suit on, I went out with the drill. To my amazement, the ice was 8 inches thick! I stood and looked at the bottom between my toes, and watched a fish.

Ice landings tomorrow!
Pilot DAR is offline