Reading this I need to go back to the books...
I have been in windshear twice..both times it felt like the hand of god was pushing the plane down, both times I landed so hard I hurt the planes in some minor way...
Anyone who has been through this will tell you that it is the weirdest feeling to have the throttles up all the way, engines screaming, airspeed and deck angle as high as your willing to go to keep the wings flying...and you still go down hill.
You had nothing left, you cant pull the nose up higher, you don't have any more power...your along for the ride.
That said, now that I fly jets, I have more power, and higher thrust to weight ratio, a slicker aircraft that accelerates faster, has more climb power, and all techie talk aside of inertia and load factors, when I push the throttles forward, the plane goes up instead of down.
In anyevent, I think we can all agree on the following.
To live through windshear..
1) Best to recognize it and avoid it
1a) If you do get into it, recognize it early and a fast and appropriate response is in order.
2) Hopefully your flying a plane that has the thrust to weight ratio that when you add all available power..
you go up, or level, instead of down.
So in IMHO...it's about performance, pilot and aircraft.
-SSG