PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Wind shear
Thread: Wind shear
View Single Post
Old 20th December 2005 | 15:58
  #12 (permalink)  
John Farley

Do a Hover - it avoids G
 
Joined: Oct 1999
Posts: 2,201
Likes: 0
From: Chichester West Sussex UK
If you are making an approach at 10 kts above the stall speed, and you suffer a sudden drop in windspeed of 20 kts, I assume you will stall.
In many cases I am sure you are right to think a stall would result. But why is quite another matter.

A stall is likely because when the wing lost speed it would loose lift, a sink would then happen, triggering the pilot to instinctively pull back, increasing the AoA and so cause a stall.

But wings only stall due to their AoA getting too high not because the airspeed has reduced below the 'stalling speed' which is a rather meaningless term which changes with weight, angle of bank and manoeuvre and even the power used in some circumstances.
John Farley is offline