[Scan-DC] Wind shear makes interesting Nationalairport towerlistening

[Doug Kitchener]

Yeah, maybe it was about equipping planes rather than airports with wind shear detection... will have to do some research on that, I think I remember seeing a 60 Minutes or something like that years ago after a major accident involving wind shear.  My new nephew-in-law is an Embraer pilot for Jet Blue, will have to ask him about it.  I'm too much of a control freak to actually like flying - the 200-foot one must have raised some white knuckles.  Phooey on that, that's what amusement parks are for!

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> From: w4jecom at w4je.com
> To: oldsdoug at hotmail.com; scan-dc at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] Wind shear makes interesting Nationalairport towerlistening
> Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 21:46:38 -0500
>
> 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" 
> To: 
> 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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