Low-Altitude Wind Shear and Its Hazard to Aviation

Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 9780309034326
eISBN Pdf: 9780309563956
Place of publication: United States
Year of digital publication: 1983
Month: January
Pages: 124
Language: English

Low-Altitude Wind Shear and Its Hazard to Aviation
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Contents
Preface
Executive Summary
- Near-Term Actions
  - Information and Education
    - Low-Level Wind Shear Alert System
    - Pilot Training
  - Medium-Term Actions
    - Airborne Alert of Wind-Shear Encounters
  - Long-Term Actions
    - Terminal Doppler Radar
    - Airborne Remote Detectors
  - Time Phasing
  - Research Needs
    - Meteorology
    - Aircraft Performance and Operations
- RECOMMENDATIONS
  - General
  - Detection and Prediction
  - Aircraft Performance and Operations
  - Research
1 Introduction
- INCIDENT/ACCIDENT RECORDS
- FAA WIND-SHEAR PROGRAM ACTIVITIES
2 Low-Altitude Wind Shear
- THE NATURE OF LOW-ALTITUDE WIND SHEAR
  - Convective Outflows
  - Gust Fronts
  - Gravity and/or Solitary Waves
  - Sea-Breeze Fronts
  - Air-Mass Fronts
  - Terrain-Induced Wind Shear
  - Mountain Waves
  - Low-Level Jet Streams
  - Tornadoes
- GROUND-BASED SENSING OF LOW-ALTITUDE WIND SHEAR
  - Low-Level Wind Shear Alert System
  - Pressure Sensors
  - Ground-Based Microwave Radar
  - Microwave Doppler Radar
  - Next Generation Radar (NEXRAD)
  - A Terminal Radar for Wind-Shear Detection
  - Remote Sensing by Means of FM-CW Radar
  - Longer-Wavelength Profiling Radar
  - Doppler Lidar
  - Acoustic Sounding
- AIRBORNE REMOTE SENSING OF WIND SHEAR
  - Microwave Doppler Radar
  - Doppler Lidar
  - Passive Infrared Radiometry
- INTERPRETATION AND COMMUNICATION TO AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS AND PILOTS
- WIND-SHEAR PREDICTION
- NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INTERACTION WITH THE FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION
  - Dissemination of Weather Advisories
3 Aircraft Performance and Operations
- WIND-SHEAR WARNINGS
- COCKPIT PROCEDURES AND TRAINING
  - FAA Regulations
  - Operating Procedures
    - AVOIDING IMMINENT GROUND CONTACT
  - Training Programs
  - Wind-Shear Modeling for Training Simulators
- PERFORMANCE IN WIND SHEAR
  - Airplane Response to Wind Shear
  - Takeoff in Wind Shears
  - Altitude Loss in Wind Shear on Landing Approach
  - General Aviation Aircraft
- GUIDANCE AND CONTROL AIDS
  - Airborne Warning Systems
  - Manual and Automatic Control Systems
4 Conclusions
5 Recommendations
- GENERAL
- DETECTION AND PREDICTION
- AIRCRAFT PERFORMANCE AND OPERATIONS
- RESEARCH
Appendix A Wind-Shear PIREPs
Appendix B Example of a Modern Wind-Shear Penetration System
- APPROACH AND LANDING
- GO-AROUND
- TAKEOFF
- DISPLAYS DRIVEN FROM THE FCC AND TMC
Appendix C References and Bibliography
Appendix D Glossary of Acronyms and Abbreviations Used in the Text

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