Originally Posted by
RAH RAH REE
If I get windshear I'm mashing those throttles into the EICAS. What is this BS "graduated" approach to using power in a windshear. You don't pay for the engine hours and stress put on them from max power, you are paid to keep people alive.
You have no way knowing how bad it is or how bad it can get. You might just be encountering the edge of a stronger microburst event that could get really bad really fast. I'd rather at that point have as much speed and altitude as I can get.
Dead on. Getting away from the ground is your #1 goal. I just discussed this with some classmates in recurrent recently, and none of us who have encountered windshear have used less than max power for the escape.
(LostInPA assumes no responsibility for the results of this small sample size, non-scientifically conducted survey) 
Last edited by LostInPA; 12-20-2012 at 08:46 AM.
Reason: spelling correction