Microburst and wind shear avoidance
As we all know, safety is fundamental to the aviation industry. There are many factors will cause dangerous to flights, such as human factors, problem of aircraft structures and so on. Flight safety has many challenges. Due to the climate variability and suddenness, meteorology has become a severe problem in aviation. Many air crashes are in the result of bad weather. In generally speaking, there are several weather phenomenon have much influence on flights, like turbulence, including clear air turbulence, thunderstorms, icing, volcanic ash. People have spent a lot of energy in predicting and avoiding these weather problems. According to the NASA Langley Research Center, in the 1970s and 1980s, multiple aviation accidents were attributed to wind shear phenomenon. So it is important for us to know its causes and features so that we can predict it more accurate to ensure the aviation safety. This essay will firstly introduce the definitions of microburst and wind shear, and the relations between them. Following this, it will explain these weather phenomenon’s effects on flight and discuss some air crash cases. Finally it will look at the approaches to avoiding microburst and wind shear from different aspects in order to keep the flights’ safety. As we all know ,a good pilot is not the pilot who survive in a bad situation ,if a pilot take chance to do something with bad weather ,the pilot is not profession .I think a good pilot is the person that he can make a good decision to decide to fly or cancel the flight .Most of the experience captions will not take any risk to doing missions with the bad weather ,such as the microburst or the wind shear ,it is stupid ,so we should know the weather conditio...
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...s encounter with wind shear is to know it is there; know the scale of the change; and be prepared to correct or go around immediately. Apart from that, the basic knowledge of the weather information is very important ,some aircraft crashed because of the bad weather condition , when they face the bad weather , they make a bad decision ,it is very dangerous ,sometimes , it can cause the airplane crash .A professional pilot should always check the weather , as I said before ,if the pilot can handle the bad weather survive last , it is not mean he is a knowledgeable pilot ,maybe he has more experience , he is familiar with the situation . The good pilot determine to fly or not to, he can see the weather situation which will happen few hours later .Both the microburst and the wind shear are severe weather ,all of the pilots should be prepared for it .Just for safe .
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