Aus weather may not get the snow and ice issues experienced overseas however some of the worst storms I have seen have been around Brissy.

My airline is limited to 50 knots for any operations so any forecast beyond that is irrelevant.

The difference between the US (and I assume Europe) and Aus is the lack of dispatch support provided to pilots down under and the remote location of many airports with little offering in the way of a plan b.

Flying in the US is constant handholding with big brother watching your every move in real time along with a HUGE number of options in case the destination turns to worms. Its a great system and makes for a generally enjoyable day out.

But I take my hat off to pilots in oz, I think its a challenging place to keep the wagon on the rails, on time and safe.

Boeing just issues recommendations. Not binding unless the operator adopts the recommendation. If we were to divert at the first mention of windshear it would be overkill. Severe windshear.. definitely avoid.

There’s wind shear and there’s microburst windshear

It's all windshear. Same set of procedures for all of it.

Same risk?

I 100% agree. At the end of the day it comes down to the Captain as to how much of a risk the conditions on that day present. On that particular day

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Thanks for playing

How's the weekend looking? Commuters dream

GLEX 16L Wind Shear Escape will make interesting reading

No. But same set of procedures.

Same set of procedures for a “Windshear Escape Manoeuvre” yes, but for all other contingency planning and decision making before and after, such as the decision to even commence the approach, or to attempt another approach - completely different. Are you a pilot or a computer?

Last weekend, particularly Sunday, there were numerous missed or discontinued approaches due wind shear - some aircraft declared wind shear escape, some aircraft declared "just" wind shear, some aircraft declared predicted wind shear. Some aircraft held prior to making an approach, some aircraft were processed for a second or third approach, some aircraft diverted.

And for aircraft without ‘Windshear Warning Systems’, they just continued on through the mechanical turbulence and landed.
Any windshear encounters reported by departing aircraft?

More interesting than the decision to commence approaches is the fact that lots of narrow bodies landed on 16L in heavy rain and the ATIS reporting that a taxiway was closed due flooding, I assume most/all the Boeing’s used flap 30 due to the crosswind and wind shear. All the while notams that we’ve all come to expect ( and maybe ignore) state;
Thats 20% of your ground roll notam’d as below minimum required friction levels due rubber build up if you land on the 1000’ markers. Or a quarter of your landing roll notam’d as below minimum required friction levels due rubber build up if you touch down at 1500’ ( in heavy rain, with less than full flap, maybe carrying extra knots for gusts).
Things are starting to stack up.
I might buy shares in Sydney Airport Holdings.

Yes, from RWY 16R.

Lord Howe TAF, makes for some interesting bedtime reading.

Yes that is all perfectly obvious but maggot gave the impression he was referring to the experience, not the planning. Or maybe just "term-dropping". If that's not the case then move on. The airplane doesn't know if its in regular old windshear or "microburst windshear" and the procedure for dealing with it is no different because it's microburst-related.

Somehow I don't think the Dash will be going there today

Well, there are some significant issues with the computer system aren't there... haha.

I mean even from a planning perspective all those years ago, who decided to put an FDRG boundary running along the TCU of the countries busiest airport? Makes it interesting when jets deviate into your airspace which you have no flight plan for.