Captain Dave Does It Again

Captain Dave is the writer of Flight Level 309 and Captain Dave is a pilot has a way with words. From his blog today: Fi-Fi blasts through the windshear zone at 4,400 fpm, V2 plus 55 knots. We are approaching flap/slat speeds... Flaps up. I decide to leave the engines at maximum thrust until 3,000 feet AGL (above ground level). The deck angle is very impressive as she claws for altitude. PANC departure decides to turn us to the right, i.e., the long way around to an easterly heading. This is smart because of potential turbulence in the Turnagain Arm area. As we shred 2,000 feet AGL, the airframe starts to shake from windshear caused turbulence. It is light to moderate bumping and thumping; winds showing from all directions. The inertial nav platforms are a little bit confused with light winds changing direction in rapid sequence. Three thousand feet AGL falls away as we turn through a northerly heading holding 30 degrees of bank angle. Thrust levers back to climb power, lower the nose to accelerate and ask for auto-pilot number one, please. The vertical speed decreases to 2,000 fpm while Fi-Fi rolls the speed up to 250 knots for the climb to 10,000 feet AGL; this takes all of twenty seconds, then the pitch increases again to hold 250 knots at about 2,800 fpm. We are above the shear zone now; winds out of the northeast at steady 30 knots. The forecast 50 knot windshear did not materialize. http://flightlevel390.blogspot.com/2011/04/leaving-pandora.html I am afraid to fly and while I am reading his article, I just felt my fear of flying in the words he wrote. That is a sign of a great writer, folks.