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Most western pilots have patiently worked such lift for an hour or more while waiting for conditions to improve near their destination airport. They made the decision to loiter long before descending to pattern altitude and sometimes miles away from the airport. Sudden and very powerful surface winds can have various other causes.
And the finest example of a Cirrus SR22 is not going to want to lift a full load out of a backcountry strip on a warm afternoon with a densityaltitude reading five digits. We may be the best pilot ever born, but we can’t force a tired Skyhawk to climb above its genuine absolute ceiling, undefined by any performance chart.
Weather Go-arounds due to weather occur due to windshear caused by gusting winds or microbursts. When an aircraft encounters horizontal windshear, it could be blown off centerline. Similarly, if an aircraft encounters vertical windshear, it reduces or increases the sink rate.
Moderate windshear in some areas could make some thermals somewhat difficult to work but that, too, is typical. He only needed a glide ratio of 14:1 to reach the airfield to arrive at a typical pattern altitude of 1,000 ft AGL. 65 kts IAS given the high densityaltitude. to 2 miles) in diameter.
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