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Capt. Chaos said:
Caught this guy up on the surface.. can't imagine how much radar energy we were probably being hit with.

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They were probably hitting you with the bleeps, the sweeps, AND the creeps.
 
ChasenSFO said:
As for the 19 departures, those 2 stormy days were the only 2 I've ever seen where departures used the 19s all day(extreme weather these last few months here). I thought the Lufthansa A340-600 was going to have a wingstrike on takeoff, later I read a blog post from a pax on board saying people were screaming out loud and the pilots even came on just after takeoff to assure the pax they had control. Two worst things I saw those days were a Compass E175 rotate with the nose up and sit in ground effect until almost the end of 19R then shoot into the air later reporting a 25 knot loss "at rotation" and a Brasilia rotate right as a 50+ knot peak gust was reported(!) and I swear it looked like it was hovering for a solid 4 seconds before it swung around to the left and was blasted into the turn so quick it was hard to process what I saw for a moment. All that with the steeply rising terrain loaded with houses at the end of the runway must have lead to some wet farts up front.
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I was working those days. On the Bra (there's no 'o' in Brasilia!), it was a non-event. Everybody just assumes they're going to die on it anyways, so it doesn't take anybody by surprise when it bounces around :-) I recently transferred from SLC and I can honestly say that it was just like a normal day in RKS. Gusts +/- 20 knots, just add a few knots and be ready to push the nose down a bit if you have to.
 
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