New images of CVF FR (PA2)

[hobie]

Of course if all goes $$$$$ up .....

it can present one with a problem ....

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[ShyTorque]

Originally Posted by hobie

Hope it's long enough to prevent this ......

Whoops sorry - me foot slippped off the clutch!

[movadinkampa747]

Originally Posted by WPH

movadinkampa747,
Otherwise, you could wait for the ice to melt and use one of those floating airfields (I think they're called aircraft carriers).

That is interesting you mentioned ice melting because
natural surface and possibly the subsurface melting are not
singularly,and I don't say that lightly, attributable to the local ambient temperature.
You must understand that the potential for melting is a complex
combination of the angle of inclination of incoming
radiation (which directly determines the ambient
temperature), the amount of reflected
radiation (mostly attributable to the surface characteristics),
the absorption and transmission of the
nonreflected radiation. Or when the sun comes up it gets hot and the ice melts.
Or put another way Q Q e x sw,x sw,a = -m
where Qsw,x = flux of shortwave solar radiation
at depth x in the snowpack,
Qsw,a = flux of shortwave solar radiation
absorbed at the snow surface,
m = bulk extinction coefficient.