I've experienced much worse than that. That video was just mild turbulence, to be honest I would probably have slept through most of that. The worst I've experienced and the only time I felt legitimately scared on a flight was in 1999 flying from Abu Dhabi to Hong Kong with Gulf Air. As we approached HKG a tropical storm cell closed in and the captain decided since we were close enough to continue to land at HKG. I now understand why pilots avoid flying through a storm cell. That aircraft made noises like I've never heard any aircraft make, and the violence with which the aircraft (A340) shook, vibrated and bounced was like nothing I've experienced before or since. Personal belongings flew around the cabin, glasses fell off people's faces, passengers were screaming and praying. I saw two female cabin crew crying in front of passengers and I thought there was a good chance that we were fucked. We ended up making a hard landing in Hong Kong with heavy cross wind, intense rain and poor visibility. I found out later that we were the last flight to land because the airport had already diverted flights and closed to landings. There was a male flight crew member, a young, chad Middle Eastern guy, while his female colleagues were crying and looking obviously scared this guy sat strapped into a crew seat with a stoney, stoic look on his face. He was obviously concerned but tried hard not to show it. As we disembarked I shook hands with him and he told me that he had never experienced anything like that before and he was really scared that we wouldn't make it. Walking through the jet bridge into the terminal I noticed that I was shaking a bit, my fight or flight mechanism had been activated and I realised how worried I'd been. That was the scariest flight and landing I've ever experienced and I'm a genXfag that has easily been on over 250 domestic and international flights since childhood till now in all types of different aircraft.
I developed a fear of flying later in life to the point small bumps freak me out. I used to love flying as a kid and still get on a plane monthly now for business.
>2016 >GRU to SDU >can see the storm coming from the windows at the airport >every flight gets rushed the fuck out before it arrives >take off and it starts raining >turbulence starts >see the fucking lightnings right by the plane >lights gets turn off >10 minutes of turbulence >captain says over the speaker were going to ride this fucker over and this thing won't turn around >storm passes a couple of minutes later >beautiful clear view of rio de janeiro >landed safely
It was a fun hour, the views of the city were the best part because at street level sure its a shithole
>airliner, minor turbulence >women start screaming and panicking
>C-130, flying through a thunderstorm, shitcan rattling like its going to fall apart, bouncing up and down in the jump seats, literal zero-g moments from the aircraft bouncing up and down >jokes and mild annoyance, stoic seat gripping, no panicked screaming >one dumbfuck starts hollering and praying 'JESUS! JEEEESUS! LAWWD JESUS! LAWWWD JESUS I GOTA BABY ON THE WAY I DONT WANNA DIE HERE TODAY' then gets told to shut the fuck up, and he does
cunts are so annoying and so incredibly cringe, they fall apart instantaneously the microsecond something scary happens
There are 45,000 commercial flights every day in the United States. In the past 20 years, there has never been a large commercial airliner than crashed because of Turbulence. Ice and snow on the runway is the number one cause. Number two is intentional crashes. You're actually more likely to be killed on a plane from a terrorist than by turbulence in the US.
What you should actually be worried about on a flight is blood clots. Sitting for a long time, especially at high altitude can cause clotting in your legs. When one of those clots breaks lose it goes to your brain and you have a stroke. The best thing you can do on a plane if get up and walk around every 90 minutes.
I've never had a super scary experience. I've had situations where it felt like we dropped thousands of feet in the span of a couple of minutes with flight attendenants right in front of me speaking very quickly on the phone in a language I can't understand. But it only caused slight concern.
Turbulence doesn't kill you, no. But you don't know when turbulence is actually turbulence or it's equipment failure which has killed people.
I've never had a super scary experience. I've had situations where it felt like we dropped thousands of feet in the span of a couple of minutes with flight attendenants right in front of me speaking very quickly on the phone in a language I can't understand. But it only caused slight concern.
Turbulence doesn't kill you, no. But you don't know when turbulence is actually turbulence or it's equipment failure which has killed people.
The last time an airliner crashed from turbulence was in the 60s and before that planes crashed in storms during WW2. They build planes a bit differently now. The USAF has been flying C130s into hurricanes without problems since the 90s. You are more likely to die from pilot errors like fuck ups in that Air France crash instead of blood clots.
Bro, I'm saying when you're in the air at 35,000 feet and you get that feeling in your gut of falling thousands of feet in seconds there's always a slight feeling of panic because you don't know if it's just turbulence, or if the plane malfunctioned and you lost an engine, or the tailfin was busted or a rutter is stuck. There has been plenty of plane crashes throughout the years due to poor maintenance and maybe it's not turbulence but equipment failure.
Not in the US. Since 2001, there have only been a dozen or so deaths attributed to any large commercial passenger airliners in the US. In that same span, there have been about 20 people per year die from a stroke on airplanes in the US. The worst part about a stroke is not dying. You get to live as a cripple with brain damage.
People are so irrational about flying. You should be scared of driving to the airport. Or taking a shower. Or eating too many cheeseburgers. Or living around black people.That's the shit that actually kills people.
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The last time an airliner crashed from turbulence was in the 60s and before that planes crashed in storms during WW2. They build planes a bit differently now. The USAF has been flying C130s into hurricanes without problems since the 90s. You are more likely to die from pilot errors like fuck ups in that Air France crash instead of blood clots.
These.
Go read NTSB reports on the aircraft you're flying on that had fatalities. 90% of them are going to have a conclusion that is something like "Pilot's failure to see and avoid the other airplane.", or something that's a variation of that.
ALMOST all accidents in flight are avoidable. Turbulence, wind, etc, are virtually non-existent as causes of fatal airline flights. And, I hate to break it to any contrarians or lolbertarians, the NTSB knows what they're doing.
Never. Only mild. But I would love to experience some fucking severe turbulence where people are screaming and shouting and going absolute nuts. I would love to just sit there and play some fucking music like it's the end of my life, knowing it 99% isn't, but what else can I do anyway? It's not like I can help it. So I would sit and relaxed.
Yes. It was only for 5 minutes at the most but it threw me out of the seat. >LGW-->NAP 2000 (wow 23 years ago) >British Airways 737 (just rode the new 777 to London and loved it) >hardly anyone on the plane (pre 9/11) so laid out across a row of three seats trying to take a nap >bump bump bump-BAM-out of the seat into the air and back on the ground >less than 50 people on the plane-15 screaming >Pilot makes smug remark, mocking passengers and tells us to look to the left to see the lights from Paris
I had flown Cessna 172's and had been bumped around a lot but that was rough.
At least all the new models of planes now how pretty great radars so they're able to give the pilots warnings about these patches of air so they can avoid them. Should make the plummets from freak patches of air a lot rarer.
>mum worked on an airline >one plane fairly regularly would just drop >they were completely unable to find anything mechanically wrong or identify anything with the plane itself that could cause it >they had to keep using the plane and it kept dropping in flights
May have just been the route it was flying but it was worrying.
Having flown gliders, you can hit some pretty harsh turbulence, but the strange thing is you don't perceive it as that. It's a lot of fun when your PIC and you can enjoy the roller coaster for a few seconds or minutes.
In spite of being PIC though, every time I've hit turbulence while flying commercial it always jars me and I get nervous for about three seconds, and go back to my routing, sleep, and ignore it from then on. Even after flying commercial for 60 years. I guess it has to do more with not being able to see out or read the instrument panel. Whatever, just keep your seatbelt on, that eliminates pretty much any injury associated with the magnitude 7.5 jolts.
>delayed flight >on approach there's an announcement for people with connections to go to spare seats at the front of the plane so they can get off quickly >15 minutes later plane is about 20 seconds from landing, gear is down, plane is flaring up >someone decides this is the exact moment for him to do sit up front >air steward literally screams at him to sit back down now
Some people are morons. Also:
>zero visibility fog, we were the pretty much the last plane allowed to land before they diverted everything. >"We're going to be doing an instruments only landing ladies and gentlement, you must turn off every electronic device" >*annoying American woman how had been playing on a tablet with the volume up all flight, gets asked to turn it off* >*ignores the steward and keeps playing* >*it's extremely quiet in the plane as everyone's nervous, the only noise outside of the engines is this fucking woman's tablet and the game she's playing*
That aside, zero visibility landings are freaky. Saw absolutely nothing but white out the window, then suddenly you just see the runway about a second before you touch down.
I went through one of those just last week when we landed in Lisbon in the early morning. Honestly made me really appreciative for the advancements in radar tech. Impressive stuff.
Honestly though, personal electronics will in no way conflict with airline instrumentation unless someone is purposefully trying to fuck with them, and even then it would be really difficult to do.
And a tablet playing video games if in airplane mode has absolutely, postively will have a zero percent effect on any instrumentation. Like it's actually impossible.
Doesn't excuse the passenger from being rude and not complying with crewmember requests, but yeah, those instructions are bullshit.
>>"We're going to be doing an instruments only landing ladies and gentlement, you must turn off every electronic device"
That's a normal thing in an airliner. IDK why they would even announce it.
>Be me. 12 years old. 1999. >Flying to Daytona Beach Florida from BWI Airport in Maryland >Get seated next to heavily intoxicated elderly woman >she reeks of smoke, cheap perfume and alcohol >I have asthma and her perfume starts to bother me >I ask if I can move to an empty seat further back on the plane >As the plane is taking off, the woman I had been sitting next to runs into the aisle screaming >Male flight attendant jumps up and grabs her. Quickly manhandles her back to her seat and straps her in. >10 minutes into the flight the pilot makes an announcement "We have reports of a serious storm up ahead. We should have enough fuel to go around the storm. We will keep you updated. Please keep your seatbelt fastened for the duration of the flight" >Five minutes later, the old lady is running down the aisle again. The plane is a little bumpy at this point, but not serious. >All the sudden the plane hith this insane patach of turbluence. The old lady flies us up and hits the overhead luggage bin. She's knocked out instantly and laying on the floor. >No one goes to help her. >The plane got really bad. People were screaming >After we landed, we had to wait while they brought in the EMT's to get her. She was definitely dead. They shocked her a couple times. >Eventually they carted her off the plane and we de-boarded. A few people seemed upset, but I didn't;t see anyone crying. It was pretty funny to see so many people in Disney apparel act so non-nonchalant about an old lady getting smashed to death on a plane.
>flying into athens in heavy crosswind and rain at night >runway approach there goes over water until maybe the last 100 yards or so so it looks like you're going right into the water until the last second >plane starts vibrating, wings tipping back and forth each way >you can feel the guy fighting the fucking plane on the way down >goes up and down and side to side >finally SLAMS into the ground >so hard that it bounces back up like 20 feet in the air before landing again >everyone malakaing or whatever the fuck in greek >have panicked and prayed for 15 minutes straight during takeoff and landing ever since >currently on a bus trip from the US to south america because i don't want to fly on third world airlines anymore kek
no turbulence but when I flew home from my study abroad in europe I got extremely drunk and threw up on myself
I'd say I feel bad for those who had to sit near me but now it's probably just a funny story for anyone who remembers it so it all evens out
plus at least there was nobody directly next to me.
>fly a 172 for flight instruction >bump up and down >realize it's an expected part of flight due to wind variations
Literally don't fret it. If it happens right on landing or something, sure, it can be scarier. If it is bad enough, your pilot is going around. If you're in a jetliner, turbulence is not going to bring you down.
If you go down from it, you're going to be a 1 in a million international anomaly that is talked about and learned from for decades.
-t. taking flight lessons, and work in aerospace engineering
What a coincidence. I also had a terrible experience on a flight from Denver to Miami. There was a storm and the pilot told us they were going to pass through it, we should expect heavy turbulence, but only for about 40 minutes. Fuck that. 3 hours. It was some scary ass shit. I'm thankful for inflight wifi because I could contact friends and loved ones and just talk some shit on messaging apps which helped me calm down.
>On flight from California to Tokyo >some mild turbulence, nothing too crazy >turbulence seems to have calmed down. no more shaking in the last 30 minutes >seatbelt sign is off >alright. pee pee time >go to bathroom, pee. >as I'm washing my hands, suddenly the airplane starts losing a lot of altitude real fast >have to hold on really hard to the handles as my feet were coming off the ground >stay like this for like 5 to 6 seconds with the plane coming down >suddenly hear the engines roar and start ascending real fast. those g forces were pretty strong >get out of bathroom and return to seat as soon as everything seemed ok
It all happened so fast. I didn't even have time to be scared. My body just acted automatically throughout the whole thing. It wasn't until I was back on my seat, with the seatbelt on, that I started to process the experience.
Last year a flight to thailand the plane went through a storm cell, plane was violently shaking, lightning was happening every 10 seconds outside the windows, dead silence outside of the noise out rain smashing against the plane.
And then this group of like 20 iranian some football teen team handed me ta phone to film and i just stopped caring.
Nurse here
The blood clotting problem on airplanes is very real. I worked in an ER for 5 years and I saw multiple strokes, heart attacks and a few deaths caused by blood clots from people who had just taken a long flight. It is highly preventable. As someone said, you just need to get out of your seat and take frequent walks.
Slept 20 hours out of 35. (3 hour flight + 11 + 14 + layovers). Of course did the same stupid shit on my way back. I wonder if I should have at least walked to the bathroom's.
On flights over 4hrs: >take a low dose aspirin >wear compression (TED) stockings >rotate your ankles and wriggle your toes for a few minutes every hour >get up and walk down the aisle every 3 hours or so. Stand for a few minutes near the bulkhead or galley and stretch a bit, have a chat to another passenger or a cabin crew.
Slept 20 hours out of 35. (3 hour flight + 11 + 14 + layovers). Of course did the same stupid shit on my way back. I wonder if I should have at least walked to the bathroom's.
There's no way I could walk every three hours. Should I just take maybe a third of an aspirin for my first 11 hour flight and another third for my 14 hours one right before I go to sleep? It's not the first time I fly this much, but I wouldn't mind aligning the odds in my favor.
idk I only fly to Tokyo and that takes 12 hours which I am asleep for the majority of. They never feed me either because they don't want to wake me up so I never know what the fuck may have happened.
This was literally two weeks ago flying into IAD from Lisbon. >Pilot says we're on final approach >A321NeoULR is still sitting above the cloud layer, can't see any lights below >descent begins >head through first cloud layer, minor turbulence >still can't see any lights on the ground >dive into the second layer of clouds >rain consumes the plane >can't see anything out of the window except the faint glow of the wing lights and a river of water >increasingly more turbulence >at first a couple of bumps here and there >then audible shaking, heaving >the plane begins to jump up and down >wings begin to flex like a bird flapping its wings >the rain outside is only getting heavier >cannot see the wingtips >engine nacelle is covered in fog >plane is now jumping up and down fifty feet at a time >lateral movement is difficult to assess >pilots black out the cabin lights >calm and collected they say we're only a couple of minutes out >I still cannot see the ground outside the window >the flight tracker on my screen says were 1500 meters above the ground >1000 >500 >still can't see the ground >250 >200 >150 >plane is still violently jumping up and down, it feels more like we're underwater in a rip current than in the air >100 >50 >the plane finally gets below the clouds and we are literally a couple dozen feet above the highway >pilots overshoot the prime landing zone, but we land safely
That was the tensest landing of my life. The turbulence was fine enough, but I could not shake the idea that we were just going to slam into the ground without ever seeing it.
I went through one of those just last week when we landed in Lisbon in the early morning. Honestly made me really appreciative for the advancements in radar tech. Impressive stuff.
Was me, went through the same thing around the same time. Shit was intense
>plane experiencing turbulence for what feels like 45+ minutes >really have to piss >dies down a fair bit, still have the seatbelt light on >I ask flight attendant if I can use the restroom >"well legally we can't stop you" >ok >get up >head to bathroom >stopped by a different flight attendant lecturing me about how I need to sit down
wtf
3 hours of intense turbulence from HND to ATL, it didn't help the flight was mostly empty. After half an hour I just tried to sleep because what else could I've done? When I woke up 2 hours later the fucking plane was still shaking like hell.
Next time I get in a plane for more than 4 hours, I'll take a dozen pills...
Bro, I was on a flight coming back home from Europe like ten years ago. Over the Atlantic this fucking plane, out of nowhere, just free falls God knows how many feet. No warning by anybody/anything. Every single person who didn't have their seatbelt on caught air. It's the wildest thing to see everybody just float up all of a sudden. Can't say for sure, but I swear one of the stewardesses hit her head on the top of the ceiling. After that, the turbulence was still pretty bad but that was the worst of it. Lasted like ten minutes. Chicks were screaming their faces off and I made eye contact with this dude a couple rows ahead of me on the opposite isle, and he put his hands up like it's a fucking roller coaster. Smiling and having the time of his life. I almost did it too but low key was pretty freaked out. When that plane landed everybody looked at that one dude like he was insane.... but I knew deep down he was the hero we didn't deserve, but needed.
I've experienced much worse than that. That video was just mild turbulence, to be honest I would probably have slept through most of that. The worst I've experienced and the only time I felt legitimately scared on a flight was in 1999 flying from Abu Dhabi to Hong Kong with Gulf Air. As we approached HKG a tropical storm cell closed in and the captain decided since we were close enough to continue to land at HKG. I now understand why pilots avoid flying through a storm cell. That aircraft made noises like I've never heard any aircraft make, and the violence with which the aircraft (A340) shook, vibrated and bounced was like nothing I've experienced before or since. Personal belongings flew around the cabin, glasses fell off people's faces, passengers were screaming and praying. I saw two female cabin crew crying in front of passengers and I thought there was a good chance that we were fucked. We ended up making a hard landing in Hong Kong with heavy cross wind, intense rain and poor visibility. I found out later that we were the last flight to land because the airport had already diverted flights and closed to landings. There was a male flight crew member, a young, chad Middle Eastern guy, while his female colleagues were crying and looking obviously scared this guy sat strapped into a crew seat with a stoney, stoic look on his face. He was obviously concerned but tried hard not to show it. As we disembarked I shook hands with him and he told me that he had never experienced anything like that before and he was really scared that we wouldn't make it. Walking through the jet bridge into the terminal I noticed that I was shaking a bit, my fight or flight mechanism had been activated and I realised how worried I'd been. That was the scariest flight and landing I've ever experienced and I'm a genXfag that has easily been on over 250 domestic and international flights since childhood till now in all types of different aircraft.
Did anyone clapped when the plane landed?
>Someone tells a legitimately interesting story
>Some zoomer homosexual posts a very played out joke in response to it
In this rare case, it's not a joke. I and many others would've applauded the captain for getting through it.
Do Americans really clap when the plane lands?
based pilot. just power through to meet the timeline. fuck passengers keke
>That video was just mild turbulence, to be honest I would probably have slept through most of that.
God I hate some of you guys sometimes.
its true though, i mean its all in the hands of the pilot and there isnt shit you can do about it. so crying and screaming is just gay shit. based
>I'm a genXfag
Yeah you sound like it.
you started that story off like a right homosexual
anyway anon, have you gone on many flights since then?
I developed a fear of flying later in life to the point small bumps freak me out. I used to love flying as a kid and still get on a plane monthly now for business.
>2016
>GRU to SDU
>can see the storm coming from the windows at the airport
>every flight gets rushed the fuck out before it arrives
>take off and it starts raining
>turbulence starts
>see the fucking lightnings right by the plane
>lights gets turn off
>10 minutes of turbulence
>captain says over the speaker were going to ride this fucker over and this thing won't turn around
>storm passes a couple of minutes later
>beautiful clear view of rio de janeiro
>landed safely
It was a fun hour, the views of the city were the best part because at street level sure its a shithole
>WHAT IS GOING ON!? PUT US ON THE GROUND!
>airliner, minor turbulence
>women start screaming and panicking
>C-130, flying through a thunderstorm, shitcan rattling like its going to fall apart, bouncing up and down in the jump seats, literal zero-g moments from the aircraft bouncing up and down
>jokes and mild annoyance, stoic seat gripping, no panicked screaming
>one dumbfuck starts hollering and praying 'JESUS! JEEEESUS! LAWWD JESUS! LAWWWD JESUS I GOTA BABY ON THE WAY I DONT WANNA DIE HERE TODAY' then gets told to shut the fuck up, and he does
cunts are so annoying and so incredibly cringe, they fall apart instantaneously the microsecond something scary happens
woah damn you are so cool and tough on the internet. howlong is your penis?
There are 45,000 commercial flights every day in the United States. In the past 20 years, there has never been a large commercial airliner than crashed because of Turbulence. Ice and snow on the runway is the number one cause. Number two is intentional crashes. You're actually more likely to be killed on a plane from a terrorist than by turbulence in the US.
What you should actually be worried about on a flight is blood clots. Sitting for a long time, especially at high altitude can cause clotting in your legs. When one of those clots breaks lose it goes to your brain and you have a stroke. The best thing you can do on a plane if get up and walk around every 90 minutes.
I've never had a super scary experience. I've had situations where it felt like we dropped thousands of feet in the span of a couple of minutes with flight attendenants right in front of me speaking very quickly on the phone in a language I can't understand. But it only caused slight concern.
Turbulence doesn't kill you, no. But you don't know when turbulence is actually turbulence or it's equipment failure which has killed people.
I'm no expert, but I'm having a hard time imagining an equipment failure that would feel like turbulence.
Nope, nothing close.
The last time an airliner crashed from turbulence was in the 60s and before that planes crashed in storms during WW2. They build planes a bit differently now. The USAF has been flying C130s into hurricanes without problems since the 90s. You are more likely to die from pilot errors like fuck ups in that Air France crash instead of blood clots.
Bro, I'm saying when you're in the air at 35,000 feet and you get that feeling in your gut of falling thousands of feet in seconds there's always a slight feeling of panic because you don't know if it's just turbulence, or if the plane malfunctioned and you lost an engine, or the tailfin was busted or a rutter is stuck. There has been plenty of plane crashes throughout the years due to poor maintenance and maybe it's not turbulence but equipment failure.
Not in the US. Since 2001, there have only been a dozen or so deaths attributed to any large commercial passenger airliners in the US. In that same span, there have been about 20 people per year die from a stroke on airplanes in the US. The worst part about a stroke is not dying. You get to live as a cripple with brain damage.
People are so irrational about flying. You should be scared of driving to the airport. Or taking a shower. Or eating too many cheeseburgers. Or living around black people.That's the shit that actually kills people.
No one's saying turbulence is a major killer of aircraft you sperg, it's exciting and scary like an amusement park in ride.
>your life depends entirely whether the person steering the flying tin can has a psychotic break or not. yeah fuck flying man. I hate that shit
These.
Go read NTSB reports on the aircraft you're flying on that had fatalities. 90% of them are going to have a conclusion that is something like "Pilot's failure to see and avoid the other airplane.", or something that's a variation of that.
ALMOST all accidents in flight are avoidable. Turbulence, wind, etc, are virtually non-existent as causes of fatal airline flights. And, I hate to break it to any contrarians or lolbertarians, the NTSB knows what they're doing.
Never. Only mild. But I would love to experience some fucking severe turbulence where people are screaming and shouting and going absolute nuts. I would love to just sit there and play some fucking music like it's the end of my life, knowing it 99% isn't, but what else can I do anyway? It's not like I can help it. So I would sit and relaxed.
Yes. It was only for 5 minutes at the most but it threw me out of the seat.
>LGW-->NAP 2000 (wow 23 years ago)
>British Airways 737 (just rode the new 777 to London and loved it)
>hardly anyone on the plane (pre 9/11) so laid out across a row of three seats trying to take a nap
>bump bump bump-BAM-out of the seat into the air and back on the ground
>less than 50 people on the plane-15 screaming
>Pilot makes smug remark, mocking passengers and tells us to look to the left to see the lights from Paris
I had flown Cessna 172's and had been bumped around a lot but that was rough.
At least all the new models of planes now how pretty great radars so they're able to give the pilots warnings about these patches of air so they can avoid them. Should make the plummets from freak patches of air a lot rarer.
>mum worked on an airline
>one plane fairly regularly would just drop
>they were completely unable to find anything mechanically wrong or identify anything with the plane itself that could cause it
>they had to keep using the plane and it kept dropping in flights
May have just been the route it was flying but it was worrying.
Having flown gliders, you can hit some pretty harsh turbulence, but the strange thing is you don't perceive it as that. It's a lot of fun when your PIC and you can enjoy the roller coaster for a few seconds or minutes.
In spite of being PIC though, every time I've hit turbulence while flying commercial it always jars me and I get nervous for about three seconds, and go back to my routing, sleep, and ignore it from then on. Even after flying commercial for 60 years. I guess it has to do more with not being able to see out or read the instrument panel. Whatever, just keep your seatbelt on, that eliminates pretty much any injury associated with the magnitude 7.5 jolts.
was on a flight recently that was struck by lightning. loud as fuck and bright as fuck and scary but the plane wasnt affected
Not turbulance but
>delayed flight
>on approach there's an announcement for people with connections to go to spare seats at the front of the plane so they can get off quickly
>15 minutes later plane is about 20 seconds from landing, gear is down, plane is flaring up
>someone decides this is the exact moment for him to do sit up front
>air steward literally screams at him to sit back down now
Some people are morons. Also:
>zero visibility fog, we were the pretty much the last plane allowed to land before they diverted everything.
>"We're going to be doing an instruments only landing ladies and gentlement, you must turn off every electronic device"
>*annoying American woman how had been playing on a tablet with the volume up all flight, gets asked to turn it off*
>*ignores the steward and keeps playing*
>*it's extremely quiet in the plane as everyone's nervous, the only noise outside of the engines is this fucking woman's tablet and the game she's playing*
That aside, zero visibility landings are freaky. Saw absolutely nothing but white out the window, then suddenly you just see the runway about a second before you touch down.
I went through one of those just last week when we landed in Lisbon in the early morning. Honestly made me really appreciative for the advancements in radar tech. Impressive stuff.
Honestly though, personal electronics will in no way conflict with airline instrumentation unless someone is purposefully trying to fuck with them, and even then it would be really difficult to do.
And a tablet playing video games if in airplane mode has absolutely, postively will have a zero percent effect on any instrumentation. Like it's actually impossible.
Doesn't excuse the passenger from being rude and not complying with crewmember requests, but yeah, those instructions are bullshit.
t. RF homosexual
>>"We're going to be doing an instruments only landing ladies and gentlement, you must turn off every electronic device"
That's a normal thing in an airliner. IDK why they would even announce it.
A beautiful woman held my hand tightly for morale support.
you thanked her then you asked her number right?
>HAUHAUHAUAUHUAAAA
I'd punch those dumb bitches in the face.
of course tough boy
>Be me. 12 years old. 1999.
>Flying to Daytona Beach Florida from BWI Airport in Maryland
>Get seated next to heavily intoxicated elderly woman
>she reeks of smoke, cheap perfume and alcohol
>I have asthma and her perfume starts to bother me
>I ask if I can move to an empty seat further back on the plane
>As the plane is taking off, the woman I had been sitting next to runs into the aisle screaming
>Male flight attendant jumps up and grabs her. Quickly manhandles her back to her seat and straps her in.
>10 minutes into the flight the pilot makes an announcement "We have reports of a serious storm up ahead. We should have enough fuel to go around the storm. We will keep you updated. Please keep your seatbelt fastened for the duration of the flight"
>Five minutes later, the old lady is running down the aisle again. The plane is a little bumpy at this point, but not serious.
>All the sudden the plane hith this insane patach of turbluence. The old lady flies us up and hits the overhead luggage bin. She's knocked out instantly and laying on the floor.
>No one goes to help her.
>The plane got really bad. People were screaming
>After we landed, we had to wait while they brought in the EMT's to get her. She was definitely dead. They shocked her a couple times.
>Eventually they carted her off the plane and we de-boarded. A few people seemed upset, but I didn't;t see anyone crying. It was pretty funny to see so many people in Disney apparel act so non-nonchalant about an old lady getting smashed to death on a plane.
>flying into athens in heavy crosswind and rain at night
>runway approach there goes over water until maybe the last 100 yards or so so it looks like you're going right into the water until the last second
>plane starts vibrating, wings tipping back and forth each way
>you can feel the guy fighting the fucking plane on the way down
>goes up and down and side to side
>finally SLAMS into the ground
>so hard that it bounces back up like 20 feet in the air before landing again
>everyone malakaing or whatever the fuck in greek
>have panicked and prayed for 15 minutes straight during takeoff and landing ever since
>currently on a bus trip from the US to south america because i don't want to fly on third world airlines anymore kek
you guys dont eat xanax like fucking pez before flying? kek. based
no turbulence but when I flew home from my study abroad in europe I got extremely drunk and threw up on myself
I'd say I feel bad for those who had to sit near me but now it's probably just a funny story for anyone who remembers it so it all evens out
plus at least there was nobody directly next to me.
>fly a 172 for flight instruction
>bump up and down
>realize it's an expected part of flight due to wind variations
Literally don't fret it. If it happens right on landing or something, sure, it can be scarier. If it is bad enough, your pilot is going around. If you're in a jetliner, turbulence is not going to bring you down.
If you go down from it, you're going to be a 1 in a million international anomaly that is talked about and learned from for decades.
-t. taking flight lessons, and work in aerospace engineering
What a coincidence. I also had a terrible experience on a flight from Denver to Miami. There was a storm and the pilot told us they were going to pass through it, we should expect heavy turbulence, but only for about 40 minutes. Fuck that. 3 hours. It was some scary ass shit. I'm thankful for inflight wifi because I could contact friends and loved ones and just talk some shit on messaging apps which helped me calm down.
>On flight from California to Tokyo
>some mild turbulence, nothing too crazy
>turbulence seems to have calmed down. no more shaking in the last 30 minutes
>seatbelt sign is off
>alright. pee pee time
>go to bathroom, pee.
>as I'm washing my hands, suddenly the airplane starts losing a lot of altitude real fast
>have to hold on really hard to the handles as my feet were coming off the ground
>stay like this for like 5 to 6 seconds with the plane coming down
>suddenly hear the engines roar and start ascending real fast. those g forces were pretty strong
>get out of bathroom and return to seat as soon as everything seemed ok
It all happened so fast. I didn't even have time to be scared. My body just acted automatically throughout the whole thing. It wasn't until I was back on my seat, with the seatbelt on, that I started to process the experience.
imagine if you peed all over yourself haha
Good thing that was after peeing.
Last year a flight to thailand the plane went through a storm cell, plane was violently shaking, lightning was happening every 10 seconds outside the windows, dead silence outside of the noise out rain smashing against the plane.
And then this group of like 20 iranian some football teen team handed me ta phone to film and i just stopped caring.
Nurse here
The blood clotting problem on airplanes is very real. I worked in an ER for 5 years and I saw multiple strokes, heart attacks and a few deaths caused by blood clots from people who had just taken a long flight. It is highly preventable. As someone said, you just need to get out of your seat and take frequent walks.
Slept 20 hours out of 35. (3 hour flight + 11 + 14 + layovers). Of course did the same stupid shit on my way back. I wonder if I should have at least walked to the bathroom's.
On flights over 4hrs:
>take a low dose aspirin
>wear compression (TED) stockings
>rotate your ankles and wriggle your toes for a few minutes every hour
>get up and walk down the aisle every 3 hours or so. Stand for a few minutes near the bulkhead or galley and stretch a bit, have a chat to another passenger or a cabin crew.
Didn't read this at first but I'm
There's no way I could walk every three hours. Should I just take maybe a third of an aspirin for my first 11 hour flight and another third for my 14 hours one right before I go to sleep? It's not the first time I fly this much, but I wouldn't mind aligning the odds in my favor.
idk I only fly to Tokyo and that takes 12 hours which I am asleep for the majority of. They never feed me either because they don't want to wake me up so I never know what the fuck may have happened.
I don't understand how anyone can sleep on a plane let alone for 12 fucking hours. Are you diabetic or something?
I always skip sleep the day before my flight for exactly that reason; to sleep through the entire flight.
This was literally two weeks ago flying into IAD from Lisbon.
>Pilot says we're on final approach
>A321NeoULR is still sitting above the cloud layer, can't see any lights below
>descent begins
>head through first cloud layer, minor turbulence
>still can't see any lights on the ground
>dive into the second layer of clouds
>rain consumes the plane
>can't see anything out of the window except the faint glow of the wing lights and a river of water
>increasingly more turbulence
>at first a couple of bumps here and there
>then audible shaking, heaving
>the plane begins to jump up and down
>wings begin to flex like a bird flapping its wings
>the rain outside is only getting heavier
>cannot see the wingtips
>engine nacelle is covered in fog
>plane is now jumping up and down fifty feet at a time
>lateral movement is difficult to assess
>pilots black out the cabin lights
>calm and collected they say we're only a couple of minutes out
>I still cannot see the ground outside the window
>the flight tracker on my screen says were 1500 meters above the ground
>1000
>500
>still can't see the ground
>250
>200
>150
>plane is still violently jumping up and down, it feels more like we're underwater in a rip current than in the air
>100
>50
>the plane finally gets below the clouds and we are literally a couple dozen feet above the highway
>pilots overshoot the prime landing zone, but we land safely
That was the tensest landing of my life. The turbulence was fine enough, but I could not shake the idea that we were just going to slam into the ground without ever seeing it.
Lmao
Was me, went through the same thing around the same time. Shit was intense
FlightTracker has a delay. Why don't use the GPS on your phone?
I mean the one built into the plane that you get on your screen.
Yeah, weather was dicey. I don't think we were on the same flight, I landed the 12th at about ~10:00 PM
>plane experiencing turbulence for what feels like 45+ minutes
>really have to piss
>dies down a fair bit, still have the seatbelt light on
>I ask flight attendant if I can use the restroom
>"well legally we can't stop you"
>ok
>get up
>head to bathroom
>stopped by a different flight attendant lecturing me about how I need to sit down
wtf
3 hours of intense turbulence from HND to ATL, it didn't help the flight was mostly empty. After half an hour I just tried to sleep because what else could I've done? When I woke up 2 hours later the fucking plane was still shaking like hell.
Next time I get in a plane for more than 4 hours, I'll take a dozen pills...
not even that bad, had worse landing in chicago last year, latina next to me kissed her rosary she was wearing haha
Bro, I was on a flight coming back home from Europe like ten years ago. Over the Atlantic this fucking plane, out of nowhere, just free falls God knows how many feet. No warning by anybody/anything. Every single person who didn't have their seatbelt on caught air. It's the wildest thing to see everybody just float up all of a sudden. Can't say for sure, but I swear one of the stewardesses hit her head on the top of the ceiling. After that, the turbulence was still pretty bad but that was the worst of it. Lasted like ten minutes. Chicks were screaming their faces off and I made eye contact with this dude a couple rows ahead of me on the opposite isle, and he put his hands up like it's a fucking roller coaster. Smiling and having the time of his life. I almost did it too but low key was pretty freaked out. When that plane landed everybody looked at that one dude like he was insane.... but I knew deep down he was the hero we didn't deserve, but needed.