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- From: braner@trantor.emba.uvm.edu (Moshe Braner)
- Subject: Re: Talk about an unusual "field"!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.211507.26442@uvm.edu>
- Summary: isn't that bad
- Sender: news@uvm.edu
- Organization: University of Vermont, EMBA Computer Facility
- References: <1992Nov19.041749.7777@netcom.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 21:15:07 GMT
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- I have not landed on a frozen lake thus far, but I have landed many times
- on a paved runway that is covered by rather slick ice or packed snow.
- It is really no big deal if there isn't too much crosswind. The lake
- can have several advantages over a slick runway:
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- * Presumably rather cold (WAY below freezing). Ice becomes less
- slippery as the temperature goes down. A far cry from the WET
- ice I used to encounter at the Ithaca, NY airport (fun!)
- This is helpful in keeping the rollout reasonably short.
-
- * If they plow the right portion of the lake, it will be possible
- to land directly into the wind.
-
- * If they plow a "strip" wide enough, there is less chance of hitting
- something by losing precise directional control.
-
- * If you don't hit anything non-slick, you can't ground-loop,
- even a 180 (or more) degree swerve will leave you right-side-up.
-
- - Moshe
-
- (But I still prefer summer)
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