On Dec 23, 10:57 pm, "Jim Macklin"
wrote:

We declared an emergency and advise the tower of what was happening. They
said the wind was calm, but we could land on any runway of our choice. We
landed on 17 L and taxied into Catlin and had it in the hanger in just a few
minutes. The down burst drifted north over the parallel runways for 10-15
minutes. You could see the winds was blowing directly away from the center
of the down draft. The tower reported a gust of over 45 knots.

| If you don't fly anytime there's an AIRMET, I feel sorry for you if
| you're a pilot n the Northeast..

Interesting stories! The difference in wind speed at even 200' AGL can
be amazing.

Weather forecasts are not weather -- what you encounter in the air is
weather.

This is something learned with certainty only though experience. The
hard part is predicting what's next based on what's observed.

Dan