Runway, Turbulence and Wind Shear

How to Read a Windsock

Pilot Institute

JANUARY 3, 2025

This cone-shaped fabric tube may seem simple, but it delivers vital information about wind conditions that every aviator must learn. The windsock is normally placed next to a runway or helipad so that you can easily see it when lined up for takeoff or coming in for a landing. Consider a windsock as nature’s wind compass.

Knot

Knot Weather Wind Shear Weight-Shift-Control

Arriving in Style

Plane and Pilot

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Sadly, GA accident reports are littered with singles and twins that land just short of the runway with windmilling props and dry tanks. We often end up at higher altitudes to escape the wind shear layer, cumulus buildups, and turbulence below. So, I am careful to watch the speed heading downhill into the turbulence.

Descent

Descent Approach Final Approach Wind Shear

NTSB: Pilot Was Flying Too Low Before Hitting Smokestack in Idaho

Flying Magazine

MAY 3, 2024

The aircraft collided with an exhaust stack that lies directly beneath the extended centerline of Runway 20. Google Earth view of the Gem State Processing plant and Runway 20 at KBYI. The white dashed line is an estimate of the extended centerline of Runway 20. The accident happened shortly after 8:30 a.m.

Pilot

Pilot Descent Aeronautical Information Manual Wind Shear

Step-by-Step Guide: How to Land a Piper Seminole Safely

Pilot's Life Blog

JANUARY 5, 2025

Learning how to land a Piper Seminole means becoming comfortable with these avionics, which help guide the aircraft through the landing procedure, ensuring optimal approach speeds and alignment with the runway. Review current weather conditions, including wind speed, direction, and visibility, as these can significantly impact the approach.

Descent

Descent Final Approach Approach Runway

Flying Through the Center of a Trough Should Have Been Uneventful

Flying Magazine

APRIL 25, 2024

Along with several other forecasts not shown here, this made me believe that a route around the west side of Washington would provide the least exposure to adverse weather, especially as it relates to convective turbulence. I became increasingly worried that we might hydroplane off the runway. Crisis averted.

Weather

Weather Wind Shear Clearance Turbulence

Aviation Winds Types Explained: A Pilot’s In-Depth Guide

Air

MAY 21, 2025

Drawbacks: For takeoff, a tailwind significantly increases the required runway length and results in a shallower climb angle. Effects: It will try to push your aeroplane sideways off the runway centreline. It is a particularly insidious phenomenon that can be a prime cause of turbulence. And it’s unique in Europe!

Crosswind

Crosswind Wind Shear Groundspeed Flight Computer

Aviation Decision-Making and Spring Weather

Learn to Fly

APRIL 11, 2024

If you’re IFR, can you fly through them without risk of icing, severe turbulence, or storm downdrafts? Wind—Is the direction and speed conducive to the runway alignment at both the departure and arrival airport? Turbulence and Wind Shear—Ironically, it’s often bumpiest when the skies are the clearest.

Weather

Weather Wind Shear Turbulence Ceiling

What was one of the scariest moments in your life?

Air Facts

APRIL 24, 2024

But, with a frontal system approaching, the conditions were expected to worsen over the hours subsequent to our passing through, including the chance for moderate to severe turbulence. At first it was just gradually, then more decidedly, evolving into moderate turbulence. But the turbulence would continue to worsen. We weren’t.

Turbulence

Turbulence Wind Shear Final Approach Ceiling

What Is a SPECI and When Is It Issued?

Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Runway visual range (RVR) under 2,400 feet triggers a SPECI, and another is issued if it rises to 2,400 feet or more within 10 minutes. Well, these events can quickly affect visibility or runway conditions so much that they call for a special report. Wind information. Runway visual range (RVR). Station identifier.

Altimeter

Altimeter Weather Wind Shear Runway

Are Dry Microbursts Really An Invisible Trap? – Responding to Reactions

Chess In the Air

JULY 4, 2022

Considering the delay in the AWOS reporting, it may also be helpful to proactively use the radio to ask anyone on the ground for the current winds (e.g. Microbursts are not the only source of severe wind-shear close to the ground. Sudden and very powerful surface winds can have various other causes. the local FBO).

Wind Shear

Wind Shear AGL Lift Runway

When Training Turns Too Realistic

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 2, 2024

While instructors idly watch, airplanes go off the runway, landings become too harsh, structure gets overstressed, and tolerances are exceeded. No flying in winds exceeding 10 knots, no chance of obscuring precipitation, no use of runways shorter than 5,000 feet, no risk of encountering darkness or lowering ceilings.

Wind Shear

Wind Shear Runway Crosswind Ceiling

When Training Turns Too Realistic

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 2, 2024

While instructors idly watch, airplanes go off the runway, landings become too harsh, structure gets overstressed, and tolerances are exceeded. No flying in winds exceeding 10 knots, no chance of obscuring precipitation, no use of runways shorter than 5,000 feet, no risk of encountering darkness or lowering ceilings.

Wind Shear

Wind Shear Runway Crosswind Ceiling

Sweet Dreams

Photographic Logbook

APRIL 19, 2024

But a wall of haze ahead did not bode well for the arrival to Northeast Philadelphia and the airport ATIS (automatic terminal information service) indicated that arrivals were using the RNAV instrument approach procedure to runway 6. Runway and raindrops. The remains of an enormous runway lay below.

Approach

Approach Wind Shear Runway VOR

How to Brief an Instrument Approach (Step-by-Step)

Pilot Institute

MAY 1, 2024

The heading contains the city, state, airport, runway, and approach name. Are there runway closures? ATIS broadcasts usually include active runways, available approaches, important NOTAMs, and the weather. 1) Declare the Approach Start by identifying the name of the airport, the arrival runway, and the approach name.

Approach

Approach NOTAMs Runway Weather

Types of Thunderstorms in Aviation: From Simple to Severe

Pilot Institute

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Thunderstorms create turbulence, wind shear, and icing risks for aircraft. Squall line thunderstorms have the potential for severe weather conditions, including strong straight-line winds, microbursts, wind shear, and flooding. Strong winds. This turbulence can: Cause loss of aircraft control.

Wind Shear

Wind Shear Weather Turbulence Flight Plan

Invisible Trap Kills Glider Pilot – How To Avoid Microbursts

Chess In the Air

JUNE 24, 2022

I was listening intently to the ASOS for wind or gusts, letting it repeat 5 or 6 times with the exact same report: 9 kts straight down the runway; no gusts. That was the runway we would use to land. It’s worth noting that Shmulik had a close call in the past: a jet pulled onto the runway in front of him with no radio call.

Pilot

Pilot AGL Wind Shear Runway

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How to Read a Windsock

Arriving in Style

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NTSB: Pilot Was Flying Too Low Before Hitting Smokestack in Idaho

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