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Eddy Currents
Forecast is the word they use to sound more authoritative than "guess."
wrote in message ... | On Dec 23, 10:57 pm, "Jim Macklin" | wrote: | | We declared an emergency and advise the tower of what was happening. They | said the wind was calm, but we could land on any runway of our choice. We | landed on 17 L and taxied into Catlin and had it in the hanger in just a few | minutes. The down burst drifted north over the parallel runways for 10-15 | minutes. You could see the winds was blowing directly away from the center | of the down draft. The tower reported a gust of over 45 knots. | | | If you don't fly anytime there's an AIRMET, I feel sorry for you if | | you're a pilot n the Northeast.. | | Interesting stories! The difference in wind speed at even 200' AGL can | be amazing. | | Weather forecasts are not weather -- what you encounter in the air is | weather. | | This is something learned with certainty only though experience. The | hard part is predicting what's next based on what's observed. | | Dan | | |
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