I wouldn't be getting wound up by the traces indicating
real windshear; deviations of +/-5° and 500ft/min are easily induced and just as easily corrected if the aircraft is bouncing around a little or one is looking in the wrong spot for too long.
Originally Posted by Mountain Bear
The preliminary report says that the EGWPS did not go off. Is this evidence, in your mind, that WS did not happen?
EGPWS has nothing to do with windshear (unless, because of it, a high sink rate develops at low altitude; not here, by the looks of it).
The report said: "The final approach phase of the flight profile was outside the envelope of the EGPWS warning, therefore no EGPWS warning was recorded on the CVR." That would be in relation to the EGPWS profile mode where it'll warn you if you're too low, too far out on approach. This aircraft was too close to the normal approach flight path to trigger that warning.
(this is why bloggs tends to splonge in short of the threshold when attempting a visual approach when he shouldn't be)
Splonge?? I'll use that when apologising for my landing!
