On Thursday, June 13, 2019 at 5:52:17 PM UTC-7, George Haeh wrote:
Margins are good,whether they be in airspeed, altitude, distance to landable area...

But remember the usual margin prescription is predicated on reasonably behaved air.

Vortices, downbursts, frontal passages etc. can blow past the usual margins in the blink of an eye.

Downwind of abrupt terrain, a vortex can produce a windshear of twice the wind aloft.

Yeah, remember Peter Masak! An airfoil can stall at any speed any attitude. A gusts can stall you when you think your speeds are OK. As a mountain flyer I do thermal close to terrain but I don't talk on phone, send txt messages or play with crap in cockpit. I have a dog at home that needs me!