{"id":3111,"date":"2016-02-28T11:21:33","date_gmt":"2016-02-28T00:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/?p=3111"},"modified":"2016-02-28T11:21:33","modified_gmt":"2016-02-28T00:21:33","slug":"3111","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/?p=3111","title":{"rendered":"Windshear in an ultralight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=t3ZeOURh5tg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3112\" src=\"http:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/windshear.jpg?w=627\" alt=\"Windshear\" width=\"567\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/windshear.jpg 2538w, https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/windshear-300x155.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/windshear-1024x530.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/windshear-768x398.jpg 768w, https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/windshear-1536x795.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/windshear-2048x1060.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 567px) 100vw, 567px\" \/><\/a>This one&#8217;s got it all &#8211; a scenically beautiful evening with little or no wind on the ground and severe turbulence, windshear\u00a0(referred to by the pilot as a &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HDfodeURad0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">microburst<\/a>&#8216; in this clip),\u00a0rain and an engine failure in the air. All in the space of a couple of\u00a0minutes.\u00a0It&#8217;s a good example of how superficially benign conditions &#8211; but note the storm clouds and rainbow &#8211; can lead very quickly into a potential disaster in any aircraft but particularly in a very light rag-and-tube ultralight. Ignore the weather at your peril!<\/p>\n<p><em>Click on the photo to view the video &#8211; you can safely skip the first 2 minutes 30 seconds, it&#8217;s just the pilot pull-starting the engine and climbing aboard.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This one&#8217;s got it all &#8211; a scenically beautiful evening with little or no wind on the ground and severe turbulence, windshear\u00a0(referred to by the pilot as a &#8216;microburst&#8216; in this clip),\u00a0rain and an engine failure in the air. All &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/?p=3111\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,3,6],"tags":[801,880,1024,1082],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3111"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}