Posted by waki on August 27, 2004, at 13:37:48
In reply to great advice from Waki :) » waki, posted by JenStar on August 27, 2004, at 11:30:41
Turbulence is an excellent reason to become anxious, but allow me to share a secret with you.
When I flew my first flight I was nervous as heck with the turbulence.
A few years later I landed a job at Boeing Aerospeace company testing jets.
We had this wind tunnel, I kid you not I saw wings on a jet deflect at least 10 feet up and down. Whats my point? Well first of all turblence is not going to break the plane. The wing is part of the plane in which the part you sit in does not connect the wing but more or less allws the wing through it. So you see the wing wont break.
The next part of turbulence that makes people nervous is the plane flying out of control. Another quick story. There was this flyboy who tested jets at boeing. This guy was an ex fighter jockey. Well he was testing the E6A which is a Navy Boeing 707. Four monster GE cfm56 engines. This guy Barrel rolled the 707. Thats right! He completely rotated it 360 degrees. The president of Boing was going to fire this pilot. The navy ordered several of them after they say the test. The pilot was then given high honors and asked not to do it again.
Whats my point? It is darn near pyhsically impossible to drop a plane out of the sky from turbulence.
Are you afraid of an engine blowing out? Have no fear these monsters of the airways are designed to fly on 1 engine.
Afraid of some new pilot fresh out of school? Don't worry about this, you see anybody can fly a jet, its landing and taking off thats the tricky part. If your going to worry, worry about only taking off and landing (which is really no big deal).
I'm telling you all this because you need to have confidence in the equipment, people and airlines you are flying.
I have a personal preference to fly Boeing planes over the European Airbus. I'll pass on the "fly by wire plane" and take a "good ole hydraulic component" anyday; but thats me.
My point on this is if you want to feel safer, ask about the plane. Tell your agent you demand a Boeing. Choose an airline with a good maintainence record. Even though the FAA oversees all preventitive maintainence schedules it may make you feel safer to fly a United over a Economy Hooters jet.
Terrorist safety? You know the answer to that. Those knuckle heads will try something different. I think all airlines learned their lesson.
I did not mean to give a dissertation on air planes, but the last thing any of you people need to worry about is the planes safety in the air.
Worry about how your going to get healthy. Worry about which meds should you take next. Worry about world peace or world hungar. Please don't worry about the plane or the flight.
ok?
cheers M8's
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