GroundStop and the pile up.....

JaceTheAce said:
The turbulence today was really bad going into Newark today. We had continuous moderate and severe turbulence from 6000 feet all the way down to about 1200. Right about then the severe turbulence started to turn to just continuous moderate and we ended up being able to land. Three aircraft in front of us (A320, 757, and A330) went around. The winds at 4000 feet were 110 at 100 knots!!! At 2000 they were 090 at 80 and finally they switched to 050 at 34 gust to 48 for RWY 4R. This was the worst turbulence in an approach I have flown in the [only] 3 years of turboprop flying I've been doing in the Northeast. Quite a few passengers threw up!
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I flew into EWR on CO 399 from MIA today. Not fun weather to come back to after being in the islands on vacation for a week :). Our crew hit it on the first approach. Our flight was only delayed about 2 hrs. The winds are still howling here now.
 
JEP said:
what about this:

....and now a few have returned to the gate. Sounds like they don't want to even leave.... WS1500-sfc +/- 20 kts Severe Turbulence

10035G50 :eek:
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If we get WS of -15 kts, we're done. Can't take off and can't start an approach. If those planes had been on the taxiway a while, it's likely they were getting close to min fuel and considering going back anyway. Either that, or they were afraid of being fined $27,000 per pax. :)
 
jtrain609 said:
Like...legit severe? Autopilot kicked itself off, you temporarily lost control of the aircraft severe?

I mean I'm not doubting you, I've just only seen severe twice in my life, once in a Chieftain and once in the EMB-145, and both times we were below 10,000' tooling around on an arrival. Even then, it was continuous moderate, occasional severe.
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Yep, lost control of the aircraft, had to get it inspected when we got to ORD severe.

The whole ride up was constant moderate, but there were two spots of severe we hit. The worst one lasted about 20 seconds. We were at 310 but in those 20 seconds we were as high as 316 and as low as 305. Airspeed to start out was 280, went as high as 310 and as low as 240. Pitch and roll all over the place. The flight attendant said that anyone who didn't have their belt on pretty tight was seen coming out of their seat a bit.

Captain was pilot flying and at one point in time we decided it best he work the yoke and I worked the thrust levers to keep it at 280 for turbulence penetration.

Never seen anything like it before, and I'd be happy if it stayed hat way.
 
I landed in 64g72 a year or so back. It was actually pretty easy (right down the runway) to land. The issue was getting off the runway. Never again.
 
I used to work at Turkish Airlines in JFK and yesterday they diverted to BOS after almost 2hrs of holding, fueled up, went missed on 2 approaches, and then diverted to ORD.
 

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"What a strange wind it was today,
My hat stayed on,
but my head blew away.
What a strange wind
it was today."

- Shel Silverstein
 
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