I took the C-130 Polar to the South Pole and tried my best at snow TO's and Landing.  Didn't go well.  Started cold and dark and as soon as I got the #3 engine up I started doing uncontrolled circles, hit a cliff and crashed.  The ground idle switches were in.  Repeat four times.  I tried starting off with all the engines running, but there is no way to completely stop, the plane just slowly moves across the ice until it falls off a snow cliff or wing strikes.  The brakes only work on tires not on the ski's.

Anyone have better luck?

We've been flying down in Antartica for the vUSAF and I purchased the another company Antartica X and its not bad with the CS C-130X.   As long as you stay centerline to the runway and taxi ways its controllable but like Mark said the F2 to slowly add reverse pitch will help control on the ice.   Keep it slow and you'll get the hang of it.

Ok gentlemen, Lesson 101 Arctic . When spinning up the props remember the Twin Otter on Floats. Use the engines forward and reverse for Control to prevent from going into circles on Ice or Snow. Scenery shouldn't matter when your testing your nerve or skill.

About a month ago I did a RW flight to Antarctic with a C27J, a bite different then a C130, but none the less the porp rule is universal.

Don-P1126 wrote on Sep 21^st, 2012 at 7:20pm:
I believe it's because the ground effects on the aircraft in FS9 are a lot better than they are in FSX. An aircraft on the ground (in FSX) is somewhat like being on ice, even though the ground surface should not be slippery. So put it on ice or water and...WHOA...it's very slippery.