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OK, so much for IV's.
Be advised that 320/360's have no problem if you can hold a line. I
have flown from and onto patchy ice, packed snow and other
unfriendly surfaces - with the least of problems as long as there is no
extreme x-wind. Of course, I have chosen long runways and require
little braking from our grocery cart wheels. Just let the thing roll
out - if there is snow, it provides adequate braking all by itself.
Landing speed is no different than on dry pavement as long as there is
sufficient length. I don't like braking so I know the roll
out distance for a dry runway at a certain landing speed without braking
- it is the same or less for packed snow or even ice if the line can be
maintained.
A frozen Grayhawk in NE Illinois. If only I could get my 320
over the ice lump in front of the hangar - the perf is great.
In a message dated 12/23/2008 7:42:18 P.M. Central Standard Time,
j.hafen@comcast.net writes:
Having
done lots of packed snow landings in my 210, I decided to give it a try in the
IV. With no nose gear steering and relying totally on differential
braking, I didn’t actually make it too far from the hangar before aborting my
ill thought out mission. (have you seen the weather in Seattle this
weekend?!?)
I wouldn’t recommend anyone land a IV on packed snow.
In fact, I wouldn’t recommend even taxiing, much less taking off and
landing.
John Hafen 413AJ
On 12/22/08 8:56 AM, "vtailjeff@aol.com" <vtailjeff@aol.com>
wrote:
On thin snow cover (less than an inch) with a cross
wind lost directional control and nearly departed runway before going
around. Have handled this before in Bonanza and C182 but they have nosewheel
steering and lower landing speeds.
-----Original
Message-----
From: vtailjeff@aol.com
To: lml@lancaironline.net
Sent:
Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:30 am
Subject: [LML] Re: snow
yep, and its not
good. I avoid snow on the runway due to high tire pressure and no nose wheel
steering. Others my have different opinions.
Jeff
Anybody have experience in IVs, landing/taking off
from runways with compact
snow and
ice?
-----Original Message-----
From:
Tomas Holbrook <tomasdds@yahoo.com>
To:
lml@lancaironline.net
Sent:
Sun, 21 Dec 2008 4:47 pm
Subject: [LML] snow
Anybody have experience in IVs, landing/taking
off from runways with compact
snow and
ice?
Tomas
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