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[rebel-builders] cold weather float fling

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Garry Wright

[rebel-builders] cold weather float fling

Post by Garry Wright » Sun Feb 19, 2012 8:06 pm

Thanks Bob. It would seem that close to freezing temps it would be quite
difficult to know if your brakes have frozen or not and also to be sure that
even after dipping them in the water to thaw them out, they might simply
re-freeze before return to the airport. I think I'll be pretty cautious
about cold weather amphib flying.

Garry

On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 9:30 PM, The Halls <rdhall@xplornet.com> wrote:
Hi , I have quite a bit of float flying (over ten thousand hours). I
find if you take off from a lake then climb out to almost freezing level
your brakes have a good chance of being frozen.On the Canso (PBY) we used
to open a small hatch by the wheels and try and turn the wheels with a crow
bar.If they didn,t turn I would do a water landing before landing on wheels.
On smaller amphib airplanes this is not possible . I found that if you have
operated at near freezing temperatures after taking off from a lake or
slushy runway I would go and slash down in a lake before landing on wheels.
It would be very embarrassing to land with frozen brakes. Good luck . Bob






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