Originally Posted by
BEagle
As for that 'report', what sort of idiot tries to conduct flight instruction with a wind of 09G37 with Cbs, virga and reported windshear at an airport with an elevation of nearly 4900 ft?
On top of the gusting, it had a tailwind component of at least 10 deg, if not the full amount (runway 11, 21009G37KT, one observation at 31037KT)
Sounds like it was a challenging situation, but all the alarm bells should have been ringing loudly. I would have thought that 200', full power and the nose pointing downwards could have given you enough airspeed to clear the runway by at least a few feet, but then again, I wasn't there.