real estate purchase+wind shear= angry wife

[hillmanr2]

My wife is super happy with me now We are putting in an offer on a townhouse this week.

In certain wind conditions we get allot of turbulence at one end of our field. I was prepared for it to be where it usually resides. This time the wind completely changed direction at the wrong time and the rolling wind got pushed further towards the center of the strip. The plane ballooned slightly then slammed into the ground like some one jumped on top of it. I have never seen anything like it. It lost 15 ft of altitude in under a half a second coming down flat as a pancake. The gear ripped out the innards and the wheel pants went into the wings at the second rib .
I now see why it is such a huge danger for full scale, that is some scary snizz.

[3ddd]

wind shear kills alot of people

[Stainless Skills]

I was flying during the beginning of a thunderstorm with howling winds and my Funtana was jumping up and down 10 feet at a time. It is weird how in high gusty wind situations giving full deflection one way seems to have absolutely no affect on the plane what so ever. You probably tried to gain altitude but there was absolutely nothing you could do. It is like another force takes a hold of the plane.

[sp2pilot]

Had it happen during a landing in a 182. Just as We touched down the plane snapped back into the air, maybe 5 feet under the gear. With 40% flaps dialed in and a straight track I applied throttle but as quicky as it went up it came back down, Very violent and the airframe made some very bad sounds, it was a couple days before the annual so we waited for the AI to give us the bad news, everything checked out but my nerves took weeks to recover. Same day we did this a Helo got turned over on final, tore it up pretty bad but the pilot walked away from it. Conditions were clear sky, unlimited ceiling and gusty winds 25 to 40 knots