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I thought this was interesting so I'll share it. I hit some unusual
windshear I suppose last night going into St. Simmon's Island, GA (BQK) in an A36 Bonanza. Here we were, me flying and the non-pilot owner (my brother-in-law) in the right seat cruising at 3000 over the top of a broken layer about 25 south of the localizer to runway 7, about 9:30 EST. We were in moderate to occasionally severe turbulance and I had been warned by the FSS briefer about a windshear at 1000 agl - I think it was the fact that there was a 180 degree diff in wind direction between the surface and 1000 agl that was causing it. Oh yeah, a big fat low pressure was sitting right on top of BQK, more or less, as I could determine from the duats graphical current analysis in the motel room an hour later. The pressure had been dropping since Atlanta and the altimeter was down to 29.68 I believe. Anyway, here we are in flat out cruise, I look up and notice I'm only indicating 140 or so when I should see 165, and dropping a couple of knots per second. As the airspeed goes through 110, I bring in full RPM and manifold and we continue to lose airspeed down to 80 knots. I'm wondering what the heck is going on, we're now in a climb attitude and get one blip of the stall warning. By this time I've disengaged the ap and now am allowing the airplane to drop to maintain around 80. I'm just about to call ATC when we start picking up airspeed, slowly. Man, that was weird. |
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