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Looking at the pics of Wayne's plane on skis, something occured to me; Does the FAA, or Canadian authority, require some sort of endorsement or rating to operate on skis? Does your insurance company extract a higher premium for ski operations? Bear in mind that we don't do much ski flying here in Louisiana... Just curious. Those skis sure look like fun!

Bill Delcambre



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I don't think there is any required endorsement for ski flying in the US
either.

Scott

-----Original Message-----
From: mike.davis@dcsol.com [mailto:mike.davis@dcsol.com]On Behalf Of
Wayne G. O'Shea
Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2003 8:33 AM
To: murphy-rebel@dcsol.com
Subject: Re: ski flying question


Bill, no endorsement required to fly skis in Canada (but there apparently is
in the USA) and yes with ANY insurance provider you need to give them a
value for your aircraft in all landing gear configurations and you pay based
on the highest value. Generally wheel value and ski value are just claimed
as the same if using replacement skis since you leave your wheels/tires
behind and switch to skis. If using wheel skis the value (although I don't
bother) is going to increase by as much as $18,000 if you have a nice set of
new Flight-lite or Kehler Hydraulics.

There is no "increased" premium for ski planes and it's the same percentage
as a wheel plane for hull insurance, as compared to the elevated premiums
for a float plane. I guess the insurers haven't taken into consideration
that a ski plane spends a lot of time on water as well and could sink the
same, but I'm not going to ask them their reasoning if you won't!! ;o))

Cheers,
Wayne

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From: <bdelcambre@cox-internet.com>
To: <murphy-rebel@dcsol.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2003 9:11 AM
Subject: ski flying question

Looking at the pics of Wayne's plane on skis, something occured to me;

Does the FAA, or Canadian authority, require some sort of endorsement or
rating to operate on skis? Does your insurance company extract a higher
premium for ski operations? Bear in mind that we don't do much ski flying
here in Louisiana... Just curious. Those skis sure look like fun!

Bill Delcambre

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Bill, no endorsement required to fly skis in Canada (but there apparently is
in the USA) and yes with ANY insurance provider you need to give them a
value for your aircraft in all landing gear configurations and you pay based
on the highest value. Generally wheel value and ski value are just claimed
as the same if using replacement skis since you leave your wheels/tires
behind and switch to skis. If using wheel skis the value (although I don't
bother) is going to increase by as much as $18,000 if you have a nice set of
new Flight-lite or Kehler Hydraulics.

There is no "increased" premium for ski planes and it's the same percentage
as a wheel plane for hull insurance, as compared to the elevated premiums
for a float plane. I guess the insurers haven't taken into consideration
that a ski plane spends a lot of time on water as well and could sink the
same, but I'm not going to ask them their reasoning if you won't!! ;o))

Cheers,
Wayne

----- Original Message -----
From: <bdelcambre@cox-internet.com>
To: <murphy-rebel@dcsol.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2003 9:11 AM
Subject: ski flying question

Looking at the pics of Wayne's plane on skis, something occured to me;

Does the FAA, or Canadian authority, require some sort of endorsement or
rating to operate on skis? Does your insurance company extract a higher
premium for ski operations? Bear in mind that we don't do much ski flying
here in Louisiana... Just curious. Those skis sure look like fun!

Bill Delcambre

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