[Scan-DC] Wind shear makes interesting Nationalairport towerlistening

[Andrew Clegg]

National tower is on 119.1. Two flights had 15 knot loss of airspeed at 500 
ft and decided to go around, the third one was a windshear alert (in the 
cockpit) at 200 ft. The pilot sounded a bit unnerved when he was 
communicating with the tower for go-around instructions. All of the 
windshear reporting was coming from the pilots. The tower did not mention 
any airport-mounted windshear alert systems, but you would think National 
has them.

A go-around at 200 ft must have been quite a thrill for the passengers!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Doug Kitchener" <oldsdoug at hotmail.com>
To: <scan-dc at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2009 9:30 PM
Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] Wind shear makes interesting Nationalairport 
towerlistening



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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