[Scan-DC] Wind shear makes interesting National airport towerlistening

[Doug Kitchener]

Yeah, nuts to that!  What frequency - I guess approach, right?  I have the tower frequency programmed in, 119.1 I think it is, but don't usually hear a whole lot on it out here...

All the big (major) airports have wind shear detection systems now, don't they?

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> From: w4jecom at w4je.com
> To: Scan-DC at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 20:44:06 -0500
> Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] Wind shear makes interesting National airport tower listening
>
> And another one...
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andrew Clegg" 
> To: "Scan DC" 
> Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2009 8:25 PM
> Subject: [Scan-DC] Wind shear makes interesting National airport
> towerlistening
>
>
>> Been monitoring Washington National tower this evening. Two wind
>> shear-induced go-arounds on Runway 1 in the last 30 minutes. Glad I'm not
>> flying this evening.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Andy

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