Wake vortices... a sterile danger?

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message

....danger is VERY real. ......ended up in
a 60 degree bank on short final -- but that experience was enough of a
shock to make me very cautious behind big stuff.

You bet. This is one of those things that everyone talks about, and is
true. Just about everyone has hit a wake or knows someone who has. My
education came on a beautiful spring day about 25 years ago when I was on
final on a visual to 9 at BOS behind a DC9. I abruptly rolled right to
about 120 degrees of bank, and about as abruptly rolled back left to
approximately level. I forget what I told the pax.

"John Gaquin" wrote in message
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"Jay Honeck" wrote in message

....danger is VERY real. ......ended up in
a 60 degree bank on short final -- but that experience was enough of a
shock to make me very cautious behind big stuff.

You bet. This is one of those things that everyone talks about, and is
true. Just about everyone has hit a wake or knows someone who has. My
education came on a beautiful spring day about 25 years ago when I was on
final on a visual to 9 at BOS behind a DC9. I abruptly rolled right to
about 120 degrees of bank, and about as abruptly rolled back left to
approximately level. I forget what I told the pax.


You probably told them that the smell in the cabin was from a nearby
rendering plant.