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A PA28 departed on a training flight but could not land at the departure airport because of high gusty winds and so diverted to a nearby airport as a line of thunderstorms approached.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 933857 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201102 |
| Local Time Of Day | 1201-1800 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | ZZZ.Airport |
| State Reference | US |
| Environment | |
| Flight Conditions | VMC |
| Light | Daylight |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | PA-28 Cherokee/Archer/Dakota/Pillan/Warrior |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 91 |
| Flight Phase | Takeoff |
| Flight Plan | VFR |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Captain Pilot Not Flying |
| Qualification | Flight Crew Multiengine Flight Crew Flight Instructor Flight Crew Commercial Flight Crew Instrument |
| Experience | Flight Crew Last 90 Days 100 Flight Crew Total 925 Flight Crew Type 60 |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Inflight Event / Encounter Weather / Turbulence |
Narrative:
Myself and another pilot were going out to practice touch and go's. I have 925 hours of flight time; the other pilot had 250; we were both current. We did not call a weather briefer before we left. The weather was pretty windy; with the wind nearly a direct crosswind at 12 gusting to around 22 KTS. We both felt confident that we could handle the situation. Upon takeoff it took full aileron crosswind correction to maintain control; and severe windshear was present nearly as soon as we were airborne. We stayed above the runway at full power not really climbing or accelerating; not a good situation. After two landing attempts it was evident there was no possible way to land the aircraft with the current conditions at the airport. After using a GPS with weather we found out there was a thunderstorm squall line rapidly forming and moving toward us. In addition nearly all the airports within 75 miles had crosswind components around 20 gusting 30 KTS. LLWS was about +/- 20 KTS. After checking airports and weather on the GPS we elected to divert 45 NM to a nearby airport. We were followed by a fast moving squall line. We contacted FSS aloft to assist us finding a suitable airport. Had we obtained a weather briefing this would have been avoided. We were in the position of severe weather aloft with no suitable runways for the winds; within fuel range.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: A PA28 departed on a training flight but could not land at the departure airport because of high gusty winds and so diverted to a nearby airport as a line of thunderstorms approached.
Narrative: Myself and another pilot were going out to practice touch and go's. I have 925 hours of flight time; the other pilot had 250; we were both current. We did not call a weather briefer before we left. The weather was pretty windy; with the wind nearly a direct crosswind at 12 gusting to around 22 KTS. We both felt confident that we could handle the situation. Upon takeoff it took full aileron crosswind correction to maintain control; and severe windshear was present nearly as soon as we were airborne. We stayed above the runway at full power not really climbing or accelerating; not a good situation. After two landing attempts it was evident there was no possible way to land the aircraft with the current conditions at the airport. After using a GPS with weather we found out there was a thunderstorm squall line rapidly forming and moving toward us. In addition nearly all the airports within 75 miles had crosswind components around 20 gusting 30 KTS. LLWS was about +/- 20 KTS. After checking airports and weather on the GPS we elected to divert 45 NM to a nearby airport. We were followed by a fast moving squall line. We contacted FSS aloft to assist us finding a suitable airport. Had we obtained a weather briefing this would have been avoided. We were in the position of severe weather aloft with no suitable runways for the winds; within fuel range.
Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of April 2012 and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.