Taylorcraft Ski Landing

[Dano"T"]

I flew over to a friend of mine's 1000' strip on March 26th and took him for his first skiplane ride. He is a brand new Student pilot and he just built a new strip and a hangar.....he'll need some practice before he tries landing his Aeronca Chief at this strip.....he hasn't soloed yet. I told him it may take quite a while before he uses his strip by himself.....it is 1000'...not all useable. Powerlines on the end that My approach is from...and trees and a small barn....he didn't like hearing that from me...but he understood after we landed there. His wife shot this video of us landing. T-Craft Skiplane Landing I enjoyed watching the video...I didn't even know she shot it until they e-mailed it to me. This is from 3/26/06. Hope you enjoy the little clip.

[VictorBravo]

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Couldn't open the video in .asf format. Macintosh G4 with all the bells and whistles.

[Dano"T"]

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Sorry Bill, That's the format they sent it to me in...I don't know how to convert it.

[flylo]

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I learned on skis in a '40, & love ski flying.This year I bought a set from a tribe member but we didn't have enough snow to use them. I need to move to da U.P. eh!

[Dano"T"]

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Eric,

Here's the U.P. on March 13th 2006...this is up in the Keweenaw.

[flylo]

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Dano,I might be up there this weekend,do you still have enough snow to fly skis?

[Dano"T"]

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Eric,

I just took them off Saturday...I have to get the floats on before April 17th for a flight test. I wish you had been able to come up earlier...we had a blast. I flew 25 hrs on skis this year. Since I bought that house on the lake we went every weekend weather permitted. Try to get up next winter and we'll go. If you come this summer or spring...let me know and we'll go float flying.

[flylo]

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I'll should be up several times this year,my sons & I are building a cabin just north of Sturgeon River Gorge,two miles from Silver Mtn.I will let you know when.

[Dano"T"]

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Great...I'm in Iron River now....I live on Camp Lake near Ski Brule. I'll have my plane on the lake all summer.

[Dano"T"]

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VictorBravo,

I downloaded this video to google HERE This should work.