Originally Posted by
G0ULI
I know that the weather at the time would appear to contradict the formation of a vortex ring, but could the explanation be as simple as that? High power vertical slightly reversed climb followed by a turn and drift into a vortex of descending air?
I naively believed vortex ring susceptibility was down to forward (or other direction) airspeed, rate of descent, and application of power. Remove any one of the three and the conditions cease to exist. I'll have to go back to basics to factor in weather.
For everyone's benefit, where can we find a comprehensive table of the weather factors, and precisely how they similarly cause - or 'contradict the formation of vortex ring', as you put it. I'm not convinced you know what vortex ring state is, given your phraseology.