And motorcycles, Dress for the slide..

@Moon Rambo ...not for the ride. Well, unlike cars we have very limited space to carry things around, but I always check and double check the weather report. If there's even the slightest chance that I may encounter bad weather then I grab extra gear. True for being on foot too.

@@moteroargentino7944 for sure, my survival kit is my passenger. I could land most anywhere and be ok for a week.

Exactly - I always tell my kids, dress like you're going to be outdoors for at least an hour. Then if you crash and are unconscious you won't die of hyperthermia before you awake. Tennis shoes and jeans won't cut it in any remote area.

All things considered, I'd say rather fortunate. The important things went well, and the pilot walked away, hopefully without frostbite. Well done, pilot! I assume the appearent radio silence was due to being edited out.

@@jonascarlsson1290 no, this nincompoop made no radio calls. He also apparently expected to just drop down onto fresh, deep snow without skis. Admittedly I've never done it, but I've heard of bush pilots "skimming" the surface on something between a low approach and a touch n' go. Not a full touch, but a light skim while keeping enough energy to keep the wing flying and get back in the air expeditiously.

@@ParadigmUnkn0wn You can clearly see him talking on the radio when the audio cuts out. I also don't think he expected to put it down in the snow, but that was his list of options.

Naa that's a plane you scrap and never touch again.

@@ParadigmUnkn0wn "Admittedly, I don't know what I'm talking about but I'm going to criticize anyway."

He doesn't care. Sucky landings get more clicks.

Yah Capt, needs skids. 💛🙏🏼

@@JDashRider ah yes, the 300k views will surely turn him a profit.

@@paddington1670 Lol

it's snow with a frozen crusty top layer that is what gets you. the moment the wheels break through that layer it's going to grab and flip you.

I nearly landed a glider on a 30° sideward slope. It looked perfect from above. By chance, this „field“ was next to the road I used to use to get to the airfield, so I knew it was a hill not a field. Seldom you have the chance to see a field before you have to use it. It might be a good idea, though, to check the fields around your airfield.

Sometimes the ground is best place to land😂

Not a psycho? Beats a hole in the ice.

We did this when Paragliding, on the way to the flying site we would check out possible emergency landing areas. Checking for power lines or trees that might cause rotor.

You really hit the nail on the head there! Had the same kinda journey and couldn’t agree more!

Ski's are for snow though, right?

i dont think he was planning on landing on the snow lol

@@mattpierson6206 yet he tried to land in the snow, obviously. it's snow with a frozen crusty top layer that is what gets you. the moment the wheels break through that layer it's going to grab and flip you. best thing you can do is do a full stall landing, minimum possible airspeed before touching the snow, carry as little energy as you can when breaking through that crusty layer. Always assume there is a crusty layer.

Fields are good in the summer, but roads are better in the winter. Most pilots, myself included, would go for a road all day long if at all possible. It's going to be much harder to get assistance or rescue in the middle of a snowy field. Flipping, even at that speed, can easily knock you unconscious or cause concussions or injury. Help will come much faster if you're on the road, regardless of whether or not you're injured. In addition, roads are usually cleared of snow and landing is much safer. Like you said, the Kit Fox can land slow and short enough that just a small section of straight road will be sufficient. Cars will move. Yeah, watch out for power lines but just find a road without them. If you can't at least try to land as close to the road as possible.

I’m a pilot and I chose a road in winter, like the one in this video, any day.

I’m a veteran pilot. I’ll always take a road over a field in an emergency situation. At least the road surface is more predictable

A pilot near me chose the road a few days ago and a car ran into the plane during landing... not a good outcome for the pilot...

@@Ezonial nothing is without risks but I'd rather risk getting hit by a car than flipping in a field in winter conditions where my rescue is going to be much harder.

Amazing that he remember to turn it off before exiting

Seems like he somehow killed the Elt too though.

If I remember correctly and its been 15 yrs since my last flight, but the master switch and fuel should be turned off before ditching,

@@robertgary3561 i think he cut off mic recording

@@richarddixon146 that sounded like the sweep of an Elt that stopped.

J.A.T.O. rocket: "hold my beer..."

It’s ok for u man ?

Mike mateys scrappy :) that thing could power out of a stall

@@brady8103 he could hang that thing from the bar 🤣

@@cloudpandarism2627 nah....that would just bury you deeper

Engine is fine. The fox has been rebuilt. I an the process of assembly now. Thank you.

@@abovesummit5116 Great news. That which does not kill us ... ... ... ^v^

@@taproom113 does not apply to strokes and cancer...

@@sigbauer9782 Enduring CHF, TIA'a and BHP ... tell me about it ! ;-) ^v^

@@abovesummit5116 Glad to hear!!! I’m always watching Trent Palmer with his Kit Fix. Did you have bush tires which probably wouldn’t have mattered?? Safe flying again!!!!

it's snow with a frozen crusty top layer that is what really gets you. the moment the wheels break through that layer it's going to grab and flip you. And snow hides stuff.

probably possible powerlines, wouldve been much worse

@@sethking5421 Easier to clip a tree as well. It looks super narrow.

Plane is definitely not ok

This ended exactly as expected while trying to land in a snowy field. Easy to say from here, but why did he choose to land in snow? Of course he will flip over.

@@headdown1 he probably didn't have enough airspeed and altitude to make a tight turn to the left/right to line up, and even then he could have probably come in on an angle and slid off the road. also, trees

@@abandonedaccount123 He was at a reasonably high altitude when he crossed the highway, and had plenty of time to turn right or left to line up on it. If he is capable of landing on a runway without coming in on an angle then the highway should be no different. But it is very easy to be an armchair pilot and speculate like I am doing. He may have had good reasons for doing what he did. They just aren't clear to me.

lel... could have ditched it with parachute and fire extinguishers strapped to his calfs... no? 🤣

He couldn't jump out, he'd forgotten to strap on the fire extinguishers and only had one GoPro.

@@ColinWatters you right. my bad. what was i thinking... ugh. only 1 gopro. what a noob

So true! 👍🏼

I hate that analogy. A good landing is one where you don't crash or damage the airplane, and that landing sucked big time

@@CaptainRon1913 I despise this saying. It's so played out and the fact that people are still saying it is ridiculous.

Worked for a solid 1.5 seconds!

it's snow with a frozen crusty top layer that is what gets you. the moment the wheels break through that layer it's going to grab and flip you.

@@SoloRenegade even powder can flip a plane if there’s enough of it. Foot and a half and a kitfox wouldn’t stand a chance

Looks like he tried to wheel land it in the snow. Just like touching down on water with your wheels down in an Anphib... instant trip over!

it's snow with a frozen crusty top layer that is what gets you. the moment the wheels break through that layer it's going to grab and flip you. best thing you can do is do a full stall landing, minimum possible airspeed before touching the snow, carry as little energy as you can when breaking through that crusty layer. Always assume there is a crusty layer.

It was hard to tell from video… but lighting conditions were(looked) poor, no definition between snow…drift or powder or hard pack. Looked like tire dug into softer drift or deep snow…. That’s all it takes. Even going across a lake on a snowmobile it’s hard to tell conditions with these lighting conditions

@@grandenauto3214 as someone from Alaska, snow blindness is a real thing. Been snowmaching up in the mountains and its sometimes hard to tell the difference between a small 1ft bump and a 15ft wall.

@@grandenauto3214 The conditions were visible, especially near touch down when he passed that log, you could see it was soft conditions.

it's snow with a frozen crusty top layer that is what gets you. the moment the wheels break through that layer it's going to grab and flip you. best thing you can do is do a full stall landing, minimum possible airspeed before touching the snow, carry as little energy as you can when breaking through that crusty layer. Always assume there is a crusty layer.

Excellent way to ask this. Most likely he just wanted to assure he wouldn’t hit any cars and when your mind is racing it’s probably practical to put it i back big field, you are still right tho

He didn't lose power. He was landing. He just stuck his gear in the snow and flipped over.

You are perhaps the nicest guy on KZfaq

@@captaindunsel2806 it does sound like his engine cut out and he was trying to restart it

@@captaindunsel2806 yeah he definitely had power the whole time

Huh??? Did the lack of engine power not contribute a little bit? ;)

@@troyjollimore4100 - Apparently not. It seems that the uploader stated that the engine was performing correctly and that this was not a forced landing.

@@halfrhovsquared 🤦‍♂️

it's snow with a frozen crusty top layer that is what gets you. the moment the wheels break through that layer it's going to grab and flip you. best thing you can do is do a full stall landing, minimum possible airspeed before touching the snow, carry as little energy as you can when breaking through that crusty layer. Always assume there is a crusty layer.

Terrible landing. He choose a snowy field, with predictable results. Why not land on the highway if it is an emergency? And why land with without skies on snow if there is an alternative? Or did he have skis? I don't understand his decision making. Good job on shutdown after crash. Glad he is okay and will fly again.

@@headdown1 theres active traffic??????

@headdown1 You answered your question.....We obviously don't know all the facts and we all know putting a plane down on snow is problematic, therefore we just need to celebrate his survival, wish that we can be as lucky and move on...

@@carlosasher-leon4879 I think I did say that I was glad he survived and would fly again. Maybe you missed that part. As for me "moving on", I think I had done that, had I not? What is your point exactly? I am a private pilot and I naturally speculate about why he did what he did, like any other pilot watching this video. I guess I will "move on" now. Again.

@@devonyt5501 I looked closely at the video again, and the highway looks pretty quiet. Less cars than all of your exclamation points. :)

Yup! Plus in these overcast conditions, he would have had flat light. Ain't no way in heck you'd ever be able to accurately judge it. Some people I fly with will carry bags of colored chalk or smoke bombs or something and drop them over the landing area to provide that depth perception.