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PostPosted: Sun Dec 21, 2008 11:27 am    Post subject: Lovely snow...damned snow! Off topic Reply with quote

With skis in powder snow bigger is better. There is obviously a limit to
diminishing returns. When the skis get too heavy and they start to reduce
airspeed. Another factor is that the skis like to track straight so larger
skis will be harder to turn the plane in deep snow. Of course larger skis
also make ground looping a bit more difficult.

All a matter of compromise. If you have lots of large lakes or open fields
and thousands of powder snow then fit the biggest thing you can fly. If you
are dropping into paved run3ways and occasionally short fields where turning
around may be a problem and if you see mostly packed snow then go for
smaller penetration skis.

Just my 0.02

BTW our friend Dave Fisher has a new video on youtube. It's about fifteen
minutes long so you will want a high speed connection but it is easy to see
the depth to which a ski will sink. He's pretty good as getting the plane
to turn around but it's not nearly as fast turning as it was a couple of
years ago. I'll bet he has new longer skis.

Noel

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