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Old 12-20-2012 | 06:38 AM
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I have about 7000 hours in the CR2 now and can say with confidence that an awful lot of windshear events are pilot induced. Guys chase airspeed with throttle too aggressively and end up fast then a gust kills the speed and they overreact and the speed climbs like crazy and then they pull it back to idle. Or something like that.

Many of these events can be dealt with by holding a bit more speed to begin with and bring it back slowly closer to the ground.

I'm not saying real windshear can't happen but in my experience it is often accentuated by overcorrection with the throttles.
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