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The 21 year-old Flight Service Specialist was working the radio position as a Central Mountain Air flight was set to take off on the departure runway. With thunderstorms in the area, Longman advised the captain of convective activity and a dark wall of precipitation close to the airport.

As the plane was a few hundred yards down the runway, he noticed a significant, dangerous tail wind, forming as a microburst and alerted the captain of the rapidly worsening conditions. With the tail wind now gusting up to 40 knots, the captain rejected the takeoff scant seconds before rotation.

A technical question: How did the 21 year-old Flight Service Specialist notice a significant dangerous tail wind forming?

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Regardless of how he figured it out, good on him for doing so. I'm the first to admit that I've had a few disagreements with FSS specialists in the past when they tried to behave more like controllers than advisors, but this is an example of doing the most to protect flight safety, and the recognition is well deserved.

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A technical question: How did the 21 year-old Flight Service Specialist notice a significant dangerous tail wind forming?

By looking at the anemometer?

I would infer that there was an existing wind that rapidly changed direction and/or speed as the a/c was proceeding down the runway.

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"WINDSHEAR" WINDSHEAR

Kudos on the kid for announcing and calling on the radio and seeing a deteriorating condition and taking responsibility (er, at least the radio calls) for alerting a crew that didn't have a windshear system installed (nor required) on their aircraft. An example of superb airmanship. Even though it was an FSS guy.

It saved us aviation guys another enquiry, maybe, even if it was "small" aeroplane.

BTW - even us "WINDSHEAR" WINDSHEAR" guys with the plane sometimes take things for granted and trust the aeroplane a bit too much. Maybe!

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