Commercial Airliners

[Frank Gallagher]

always make me wonder .. how the flipping eck!!

 

[Frank Gallagher]

there was a vid of an antonov taking off i think in AUS, when it used every last yard of the runway, and the air traffic control didnt think it would make it. really cool vid, that i cant find now!

 

[PhilM]

To be fair, they do land on a runway that is less than 700 ft and sometimes has elevation changed of up to 70 ft in the matter of seconds........

Add to that their fair share of pitch, yaw and roll.

 

[evertony]

Planes are designed to cope with up to five hours turbulence per flight mate, it'll be fine.

They can cope with more....had nine and a half hours non-stop on a twelve and a half hour flight from Johannesburg last year....pilot said he'd never had anything like it in a thirty year career. To be honest it went on that long I was used to it after an hour or so

 

[evertony]

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Seems like a nice lad ?

That's Robles

 

[Woolly Blue]

They can cope with more....had nine and a half hours non-stop on a twelve and a half hour flight from Johannesburg last year....pilot said he'd never had anything like it in a thirty year career. To be honest it went on that long I was used to it after an hour or so

I was working on the assumption that Ian was on at least a six hour flight so I just chose five hours as a figure which might cause him to cack himself.

Truth is, any large passenger aircraft is designed to cope with much more stress than a bit of turbulence would cause, but where's the fun in being truthful about a situation like that ?

Exactly ...

 

[evertony]

I was reading that turbulence is graded by pilots and very, very few have experienced grade 3. When we passengers feel like something has dropped hundreds of feet it's likely dropped less than 2 metres. Bad turbulence does put the wind up you for sure....had a whole flight ( only about 80 minutes) between Lyon and Amsterdam on an Embraer in 100 mile an hour gales. Every other flight out of Lyon was cancelled, and we were the only flight into Schipol. Most of Amsterdam was shut down due to dangerous winds. Grown men were crying and praying. I literally had to hold the hand of a fifty something Italian guy who was in total bits for the whole flight trying to reassure him.
It was horrendous......but that little Embraer stood up to everything Mother Nature tossed at it that night. I'm not religious but I said a few prayers during that flight.

 

[evertony]

Great thread @TX Bill

 

[SerenityNigh]

I was working on the assumption that Ian was on at least a six hour flight so I just chose five hours as a figure which might cause him to cack himself.

Truth is, any large passenger aircraft is designed to cope with much more stress than a bit of turbulence would cause, but where's the fun in being truthful about a situation like that ?

Exactly ...

There's always CAT, which can be hard to detect and very dangerous. Not that Ian should necessarily be worried, just saying.

 

[SerenityNigh]

I was reading that turbulence is graded by pilots and very, very few have experienced grade 3. When we passengers feel like something has dropped hundreds of feet it's likely dropped less than 2 metres. Bad turbulence does put the wind up you for sure....had a whole flight ( only about 80 minutes) between Lyon and Amsterdam on an Embraer in 100 mile an hour gales. Every other flight out of Lyon was cancelled, and we were the only flight into Schipol. Most of Amsterdam was shut down due to dangerous winds. Grown men were crying and praying. I literally had to hold the hand of a fifty something Italian guy who was in total bits for the whole flight trying to reassure him.
It was horrendous......but that little Embraer stood up to everything Mother Nature tossed at it that night. I'm not religious but I said a few prayers during that flight.

Chop is relative to aircraft weight as well

 

[evertony]

Chop is relative to aircraft weight as well

Very true. Had some significant lumps and bumps in Embraer's and Bombadier Dash's, yet other than the Joburg episode very few on long haul flights.

 

[evertony]

There's always CAT, which can be hard to detect and very dangerous. Not that Ian should necessarily be worried, just saying.

CAT fascinates me....in fact the whole topic of aviation remains an absolute marvel.

 

[Frank Gallagher]

I was reading that turbulence is graded by pilots and very, very few have experienced grade 3. When we passengers feel like something has dropped hundreds of feet it's likely dropped less than 2 metres. Bad turbulence does put the wind up you for sure....had a whole flight ( only about 80 minutes) between Lyon and Amsterdam on an Embraer in 100 mile an hour gales. Every other flight out of Lyon was cancelled, and we were the only flight into Schipol. Most of Amsterdam was shut down due to dangerous winds. Grown men were crying and praying. I literally had to hold the hand of a fifty something Italian guy who was in total bits for the whole flight trying to reassure him.
It was horrendous......but that little Embraer stood up to everything Mother Nature tossed at it that night. I'm not religious but I said a few prayers during that flight.

i had one incident where the plane hit some turrbulence, and then after a minute or so, literally just fell and bounced back up, everyone who had a drink infront of them ended up wearing it as the beakers flew up in the air and bounced off the cabin roof.

was terrifying

 

[Dylan]

Chop is relative to aircraft weight as well

Yep. Turbulence that would toss a Cessna around like 'a bead of sweat in an aerobic teacher's buttock cleavage' could be smooth sailing for an A380.

(Bonus point for anyone getting the reference)

 

[evertony]

i had one incident where the plane hit some turrbulence, and then after a minute or so, literally just fell and bounced back up, everyone who had a drink infront of them ended up wearing it as the beakers flew up in the air and bounced off the cabin roof.

was terrifying

Had that on an internal flight in Denmark....not nice.