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Old July 3rd 19, 06:33 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Bruce Hoult
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On Tuesday, July 2, 2019 at 7:26:10 PM UTC-7, George Haeh wrote:
Wind and abrupt terrain can get together to produce nasty windshears. I was extremely lucky to survive a near 30 kt windshear on final downwind of a 50 ft ridge 250' above it. Because my recorder showed TAS and groundspeed at one second intervals,I was able to identify a vortex and downburst.

Oudies have a recovery buffer that has been used in accident analysis. Other flight computers may have similar data available for analysis.

I'm happy to share my methodology on request.


Fortunately on days like that you can fly final approach at 70 to 80 knots with absolutely no problem getting it down and stopped in maybe even less distance than on a dead calm day.