 IFR to Charlotte in a Mooney
On Jan 7, 8:55 pm, "Mortimer Schnerd, RN" <mschnerdatcarolina.>
wrote:
> Bill Watson wrote:
> > How do you waive the wake turbulence delay? Not sure how that works.
> > I'm very STOL and can usually avoid it easily.
>
> All you have to do is tell them that you waive wake turbulence separation.
>
> --
> Mortimer Schnerd, RN
> mschnerdatcarolina.
Be careful about waiving wake turbulence delays at an airport like
this. There are some fine people that should still be with us but are
now six feet under because of this. Saving a few minutes is not worth
rolling upside down and dying in a fiery crash. Have you seen the
videos of visible wake vortices and how long they can persist?
Getting off early before the airliner's rotation point is one thing,
but unless you can outclimb it, you're still going to have to go
through the wake at some point if it hasn't dissipated. If you hit a
bad wake at 200-300 feet it's not much better than hitting it twenty
feet off the deck -- your odds of survival are not good. The, "rotate
quick before the point where they did" plan only works if you can then
make an immediate upwind turn to get out of the flight path.
Operationally you can't always do this.
Watch out for wake from departures on a close parallel too. I got hit
by an F-16's wake as I departed 4L at SSC right after it took off on
4R and it rolled me 60 degrees in about an 1/8 of a second.
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