Abstract: A wind shear detection and alert system, compensated for the calibrated airspeed of the aircraft to minimize nuisance wind shear alerts. The wind shear detection and alert system (10) determines a reference airspeed as a function of flap position, with respect to a minimum maneuver airspeed signal (60) provided by a stall warning computer on the aircraft. The reference airspeed is subtracted from a calibrated airspeed signal (76) that has been filtered to remove minor variations in the signal using a Laplace filter (68). The differential airspeed is further filtered by another Laplace filter (78), producing a filtered differential airspeed signal (70), which the system uses to determine a delta threshold (48) to be applied in compensation for the aircraft airspeed to a wind shear alert reference signal. As the filtered differential airspeed increases, the delta threshold signal increases the absolute level of the wind shear alert threshold, reducing the likelihood of unnecessary wind shear alerts.