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Nov 17^th, 2009 at 3:57pm

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My Alaskan friend with the 185 float plane also owns this 180hp Cub - nice to be a retired airline pilot. This is same lake we visited in October - about six inches thick he says. .

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Reply #1 - Nov 18^th, 2009 at 3:09am

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Goodly morning...

Wonderful shot fine sir....very nice.... Wink

About late December and we will start to see ice huts around here.
We don't get the winters like we used to and I miss them. Give me lots and lots of crisp clear air and wonderful white snow. Wink

Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug

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Reply #2 - Nov 18^th, 2009 at 2:50pm

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Amazing & thanks for sharing! Lets see that bear try to eat that thing for breakfast! Wink

Looks like a similar aircraft that Shaun Lunt used to fly before his untimely death...
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Reply #3 - Nov 18^th, 2009 at 3:18pm

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That's a cracking photo. Shocked

When I first saw it I thought it was a screenshot. That's intended as a compliment & also says a lot for the realism of FS nowadays.

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Reply #4 - Nov 18^th, 2009 at 7:47pm

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OMG Super Cub!!! What an interesting place for it to be sitting on Cool

I just love these aircraft to death Tongue

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Reply #5 - Nov 18^th, 2009 at 10:08pm

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I would be terrified to land that on the ice and have the possibility of breaking the ice....

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Reply #6 - Nov 19^th, 2009 at 10:51am

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OMG - how can you land on that ice.
I guess I would have ended up spinning round about 20 times only being stopped by the next tree at the lake side.

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Reply #7 - Nov 20^th, 2009 at 10:59pm

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BFMF wrote on Nov 18^th, 2009 at 10:08pm:

I would be terrified to land that on the ice and have the possibility of breaking the ice....

The trick is to carry a fair size rock - open the clam shell doors and drop it. If it bounces, go ahead and land.

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Reply #8 - Nov 20^th, 2009 at 11:38pm

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My goodness. That is not safe to even walk less fly. Shocked

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Reply #9 - Nov 21^st, 2009 at 10:23am

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Ya just gotta love a nice big low-pressure tundra tire to distribute the load, on any soft or fragile surface.......

........large footprint = light weight distribution.........

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Reply #10 - Nov 22^nd, 2009 at 1:39am

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Fly2e wrote on Nov 18^th, 2009 at 2:50pm:

Looks like a similar aircraft that Shaun Lunt used to fly before his untimely death...
http://shaunlunt.typepad.com/

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Reply #11 - Nov 24^th, 2009 at 7:48pm

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The picture makes me nervous. Shocked

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Reply #12 - Nov 24^th, 2009 at 8:02pm

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Fly2e wrote on Nov 18^th, 2009 at 2:50pm:

Looks like a similar aircraft that Shaun Lunt used to fly before his untimely death...
http://shaunlunt.typepad.com/

Lots of beautiful pictures. Too bad he had such an untimely end. Hard to believe a person with his experience would stall but I've heard that, in a Cub close to the edge, all it takes is hitting your own wake.

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Reply #13 - Nov 25^th, 2009 at 6:49pm

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If it can happen to Steve Fossett, it can happen to anybody. I watched a documentary a couple of days ago, "Steve Fossett: What Went Wrong?". The experts and his aviation friends seemed to thnk he was flying low and hit wind shear or downdrafts that exceeded the climb rate of the Super Decathlon. They say the winds in that area can be horrific and that he might have been too low to recover. But they think he survived and tried to walk/crawl out. His remains were found within a couple of miles of a Yosemite nature trail, so his attempt to get out was the right thing to do. Either he died of his injuries or a bear or puma got him.

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