The video is by a young friend of mine, so I can't take any credit. Feel free to "like, comment, susbscribe" on his YT-channel. He's got several nice videos, some of which I've posted here.
Autocorrect is so frustrating. It's always making me say things I didn't Nintendo.
Fantastic! Thanks for posting. @akg1486 Where are the lakes? (An old friend of mine lives by a lake in Sweden and told me that there are sometime fly-ins on it in winter...)
“I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.” Stephen Jay Gould
They are both in West Sweden, around an hour from Gothenburg. I did a few ice landings some ten years ago: we had some cold winters. This is really the first time since then it's been possible so far south.
I did one landing once on a lake where there was no snow at all on the ice. That was pretty cool; very hard to judge the height. Obviously you need plenty of "runway": just steer straight and don't break. During takeoff you need to add power with care. You really feel the gyroscopic forces on ice.
Edit: for these ice fly-ins, someone needs to check the thickness in advance with a drill. You really don't want to go through the ice...
Autocorrect is so frustrating. It's always making me say things I didn't Nintendo.
@akg1486 My friend is by Lake Siljan -- on my list of places to visit (though flying there will have to wait until the LAPL thing is worked out…)
“I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.” Stephen Jay Gould
nallen wrote:@akg1486 My friend is by Lake Siljan -- on my list of places to visit (though flying there will have to wait until the LAPL thing is worked out…)
That's some two hours flight from where we are. It's a big lake and normally colder than here. There's an annual ice fly-in every year (when possible) that's really big. Do a web search on "Rättvik fly-in" and you'll find videos.