DANGER
At Anchorage International several bagage trollies were flung through plate glass windows, at idle engine speed due to ICE=SLIPPERY=NO FRICTION
TAXY only at idle and make wide turns and use brakes with CAUTION
I have landed at Palmer and Talkeetna on slick runways and not ground looped and then again I sometimes have and ended up knee deep in powder snow
On a big run in my maule rocket you can drag the wheels on the summer mooraine runway strips,
In winter You cant run up on skis PERIOD.
In fact you cant do very much on skis except keep it straight and try to get off before the edge of the lake and shut to ilde as soon as you touch..
They have a saying in my Alaskan Airmen's handbook
Expect the unexpected.
QUOTE
A PPL with 150-200 hours of time will have little trouble adapting to Alaskan summers with 24 hours of daylight,
however winter is a total different ballgame
Last edited by ZAZ; 5th December 2013 at 05:57.
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