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Old 12-20-2012 | 01:52 PM
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In my nearly 9 years now in the CRJ-200 I have never seen a red windshear warning that was legit. There were a couple of false alarms which were quite clearly not wind shear. Calm winds and blue skies in ILM once and another with about 10 knots out of the NW. False alarms. No panic. No shoving the levers to the stops. No drama.

People need to take the possibility of wind shear seriously but gusty winds is not a reason to panic. I landed at JFK once with gusts to 50 knots and there was no real trouble.

If you're landing underneath a thunderstorm it could be different but we need to be asking ourselves if that is a wise move to begin with.
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