Author Topic: Syracuse Weather- 11:30am  (Read 3954 times)

Offline makonyy15

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Syracuse Weather- 11:30am
« on: October 25, 2008, 11:34:22 AM »
Interesting listening on the KSYR feed this morning, aircraft on final are experiencing 35-80kt winds on final approach around 3000ft to Runway 10 with moderate turbelence, all ahead of the rain system that's moving in to the area. The turboprops are having a real fun time dealing with the crosswind today!



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Re: Syracuse Weather- 11:30am
« Reply #1 on: October 25, 2008, 11:58:18 AM »
Thanks for the post.   I didn't realize that the winds were that strong here in SYR since the winds on the ground are still light at less than 10 knots. 

After reading your post I took a look at ADDs (aviation weather site) and they are currently showing winds aloft at 3,000 feet at almost 50 knots out of the south, which results in a heck of a windshear layer somewhere around the 2000 foot AGL level.

One of my respected instructors always warned me that when winds aloft are strong out of the south, the controllers have a hard time turning the aircraft onto the localizer without the aircraft shooting well north past the localizer.  The instructor's point was to always be prepared to turn a bit sooner than normally.

Sure enough, I just heard a conversation between JetBlue and the approach controller pointing out that the last aircraft overshot the localizer by 4 miles given the winds.  JetBlue responded by reporting winds aloft at 3,000 as 180 at 50 knots.  That is quite the crosswind from the south!

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Re: Syracuse Weather- 11:30am
« Reply #2 on: October 25, 2008, 12:03:53 PM »
He might have been talking about GoJet 5383. He went to establish on the localizer, overshot to the North, and had to reestablish. Colgan 4941 also had to correct 30 degrees because of the wind. Everyone's getting bounced around, but some are still breaking out of the clouds at 2800 and establishing the visual approach. Things will get really fun once the main weather system and moderate/heavy precip hits the field.