Hey Jack,
I have learned about flying in the winter, I could never get enough flying ever, even now, but what I learned is that frost bite is nasty,[&:] but still worth flying with, I've learned you need a good crisp glaze over the snow, or your plane just sinks nose first on take off,[:-] but the best thing is to just fly off the ice on a lake.
Well we decided to build an R/C Rocket plane for Ice & Snow, we took the Eagle fuselage from Carl Goldberg and basically turned it around back wards, put ski's on her and flipped the tail around, (to the firewall side) she was powered with 3 D size Estes Rocket Engines, and an OS Max .40 mounted up high from the center of the Fuse, [>:] let me tell you this was the most impressive rocket plane we've ever built, this thing went so fast and so far with about a 20 foot flame out of the back of her, it was the coolest thing ever, but then of course there was the 700 yard walk through the snow to get her back, it was so fast, radio control did nothing but weigh it down a little more, she went perfectly straight though. which is where the OS max would come in, thats what brought it back if it stayed running through the 6 to 8 seconds of thrust. most of the time something would stall it out though. But I insist,, you go right ahead and enjoy winter flying, once in a while I get out there for a winter shot, but not so much anymore.[&o]