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  • No, i believe you when ,we flew over fortyfive thousand feet on our way bake from Orlando several years ago because of severe turbulance from the start of take off , so much so that the stewardesses were told to get back to their seats and they remained there for almost forty minutes after take off and even then having to go back on several ocassions because of a very rough flight ,

  • prepare to shit pants

  • planes don't generally fly at 40,000ft, usually they'll go up to 37,000ft

  • @fube432 Sorry but your mistaken. Some commercial airliners have a ceiling of 50-55 thousand feet

  • @Clempt90 Tell me 1 airliner thats licsensed to fly at 50-55 thousand feet, because it's not legal. And i'm not mistaken, Planes do generally fly at 37,000ft.

  • @fube432

    Some business jets can fly at 55,000 feet, so could the Concorde....so im not entirely sure if it's legal or not. Even if it is illegal though, most commercial airliners cannot physically climb higher than around 42,000 feet!

    The thing that worries me is that if lets say at 55,000 feet if there is a cabin depressurization, you only have a few seconds to react while at lower altitudes you would have slightly longer.

  • @thomasboss01 Yes but this is an airliner and concorde is out of service.... i've seen no other airliner approved to fly past 42,000ft....And i don't any pilot would stupid enough to do so.

  • @1.27 its a dick

  • 1.27 its a dick

  • It reminds me a fly from SJO-CCS...damn over 40TH FT and still turbulence...

  • the announcement was for a regular turbulence though, wasn't it?

  • The cloud is whistling at 1:20 hahaha

  • Beautiful!

  • was the announcement a pre-recorded announcement? 

  • @1jonle yes, obviously :P

  • CB's can peak at over 65,000ft with enough energy. However as has already been pointed out, the A320 is limited to 39,000.

  • thats jetstar or tiger? those both airlines r the only airline that have a320's in australia!

  • @SierraHotelndiaTango Why, Thanks mate

  • which plane

  • @huzayfahLOL A320.

  • LOOK AT THE CLOUD veryy closely on the far left at 1:23 it's a face!!

  • @LiverpoolNathan908 Oh I see it!

  • @beachbubble1012 it looks like it's casually whistling haha

  • @LiverpoolNathan908 "Touch the face of God" as they used to say!  LOL

  • Looks like the tops of a super-cell or two. A nasty storm under them no matter what you want to call it, for them to have tops over 40,000 is a big updraft. Probably could tie a knot in a windsock with those winds.

  • since they say in some tales that you could lay down on clouds jump out of the plane and land on the clouds right there and tell me what happen to you :)

  • On my way to Ca last week we had the same announcement. This cloud, however, had well defined borders, rose about 5,000 feet (or more) above our plane, and as our pilot approached the large cloud formation, he turned slightly to the left, and went around it. I have never seen such a large cloud formation so high.

  • 1:18 Dolphin sex!

  • @ThiefOfMovies wtf?

  • @ThiefOfMovies lol i don't get it :S

  • Maximum service ceiling altitude is 39,000ft for the A320 those cumulo where probably about 37,000 luckily enough. True enough those cloud formatiomations can go right up to 65,000ft depending on the severity of the storm. Thuderstorms generally max out at 47-50,000ft while hurricanes will go right up to 65,000 at a catagory 5.

  • Airbus power :)

  • Thanks For explaining that :) i am going to add some videos of my flight to and back from the dominican republic

  • That's an Airbus A319/320/321, and the service ceiling of those aircraft is 39,000ft, so tht is the absolute highest that you could have been.

  • Great video :) never knew you got storms that high .... Nice to learn something new .... This might be a stupid question bit can a normal passenger plane fly above 40000 feet ???

  • @Celticbhoy18881916 yeah very easy i got over 45000ft

  • @jessellanos787  Not in a civilian aircraft.

  • @Celticbhoy18881916 often in the US midwest, you'll see storm tops 55-60K feet. It's not terribly unusual when flying from (say) Austin to Dallas where you'll have to fly south to Laredo then back up to Dallas if there is a line of storms like that. No way to go over them at that point...

  • @Celticbhoy18881916 yes they can, the a330/a340 can go up to 41000ft and the a380 can go up to 43000ft

  • @Celticbhoy18881916 To answer your question, yes. Normally they like to stay at anywhere from around 30000 to 40000 depending on weather, traffic, and even direction of flight. I do believe the traveling passenger jet was concord which could travel as high as 60000ft at a speed of Mach 2.

  • lol thats the last thing you want to hear on a plane

  • I wulda jumped out tha damn plane when they said "storm"

  • What ever!

  • Did you climb ath end or it's the clouds ?

  • That's a Jetstar A320 which have a surface ceiling of 39,000 - and its a prerecorded announcement but its not automated. The crew have to select that PA to play as they secure.

  • airbus!

    

  • Warm over cold is stable air, Cold over warm which is what we have here is VERY unstable air.

  • As a pilot, and after watching the video, I don't see anything wrong with the information given. It's true that you don't normally find such thick cloud at such an altitude, but just because it isn't normal, doesn't mean it can't happen. Thunderstorms and other vertically developed clouds are a different ball game, they could start somewhere near the ground, and extend all the way into the Stratosphere (not 100% sure, would have to reference). Wish I could have been flying.

  • @dombarca97 A320 Can fly u to FL390

  • Oh, that's way too impersonal - a recorded cabin announcement? Please!

  • This is either a recording or the Cabin Crew are just trying too hard!

  • what airline?? i dont like the recorded cabin crew message . haha i find it disturbing

  • Everyone is a cloud expert just like now that Fukushima has happened everyone is a radiation expert. we need more natural disasters like that and videos like this imagine how many 5 minute experts we'd have!

  • What airline???

  • LOL FL400...yeah right. I'm sure your spatial orientation is just as good as your altitude judging skills.

  • @jaronee No, they are seriously 40,000 feet above the ground. I was flying frontier, and the have the channel on their tv's showing us where they are, how fast they are going, and the altitude. We were 39,500 feet above the ground, and we hit clouds just like this. NO JOKE.

  • amazing stuff!

  • @roofy2k lmao yea it was

  • ok 1st of all listen up A320 CANNOT I REPEAT CANOT fly abocve 39,400 ft THATS MAX)))) MAXIMUM ALTITUDE SO NO ITS NOT ATLEAST 40 its maybe almost jus dont argue with me i no for a fact that a320 cannot fly above 39 and also the service celling is 38K

  • @Vorox144 thank you

  • it looks like he was climbing a little more 

  • Spectacular footage, thanks for sharing. I encountered similar weather flying at 37,000 near Chicago. it was very turbulent but very scenic as well, after we broke through the tops - I'll share the vid as a reply

  • Another reason that these clouds are cumulonimbus are the tops burst from the storm anvil. These "bursting tops" in this cloud represent continued instability of air in this region of the atmosphere as warm air continues to rise and condense. This effect is almost always characterized with storm clouds.

    Seeing the bursting tops and the flattening of the clouds, I can probably assume the storms below you were strong or even severe. Great video.

  • I am not a professional in either field, but let me explain my opinion on this video. 40,000 feet is a normal cruising altitude for larger jets, although slightly higher than the average 32-35,000 feet we're used to. On the clouds, there is little doubt in my mind, as an amateur meteorologist, that those clouds are cumulonimbus. Hugbear is correct in saying that these clouds are being sheared by the jet stream, but there are other factors that make these tops flat. See next post.

  • I HATE turbulent weather when flying... ugh!! :(

  • Isn't this great? An amateur meteorologist meeting on youtube, who use wikipedia to source their info? Then you have the amateur pilots, who have never flown a plane before, probably other than Microsoft Flight Simulator, and they probably sourced wikipedia too. Besides, when you have passengers on a flight, wouldn't it make sense to fly ABOVE a storm, rather than through it? I wouldn't call the pilots crazy... just plain smart.

    @isocrate27, I didn't see any UFOs. You're misleading.

  • I don't see any UFOs. Misleading title.

  • not very long probably lasted 5 minutes

  • how long were yu in the storm for

  • but he/she's saying "at least 40, 000 feet" that's FL400..

  • Thats some rough weather below

  • and also you acn totally see that the plane is climbing through out the video ....

  • oh wait that is not even 40k feet ... I can even give you your proof ,if you go to 1:00 then you can see that there is a much higher layer of clouds which are the atmospheric clouds sooo this is totally wrong ....

  • ok first of all this is not cumulous and second of all when I went to my home my plane visited many of thoose clouds at 39k feet and 3rd of all if it was a thunderstorm cloud at 40k feet then it wouldve reached much higher than it alrady is .....

  • this is exactly why i want to be allowed to carry a gun on a plane so if things get to scary or i feel a panic attack comming on BANG! "oh hello jesus!"

  • WOW, how high is the tallest point in the world???

  • no way ur getting those clouds at 40,000

  • is this even a real plane??!?!?! it seems kinda fake

  • It is very possible because thunderstorm Tops can be at as high as FL500.

  • Hey hugbear27, I believe you when you say that this took place at 40,000 feet. The dark blue color of the sky that we catch brief glimpses of at the very top of the picture indicates an altitude of roughly 40,000 feet. You don't see that dark blue color in the troposphere, where thick clouds are usually spotted.

  • thunderstorm flying at 40,000 feet ????. Clound Thunderstorm 12,200 meter. Title Must Be Crazy ?

  • @headgomer.  Heeeeeell no!

  • turbulance is what makes flying fun ! 

  • On are way to Charlote i was Piloting an A320 the Turbulance was so bad we had to devert

  • Jetstar is part of Qantas

  • what plane was it?

  • Do yourself a favour, before you post information that you obviously dont know about, do your research, here is a hint research Cumulonimbus (Vertically developed clouds (base near surface to ca. 10,000 feet; tops ca. 40,000 feet or higher)

  • @hugbear27 He Did, If he Had That Link There He Probably Looked At It!

  • @hugbear27 why get so aggravated by it, hate comments like this from people like you, mr know it all. take the video for what its worth and the fact someone has taken the time to post it up for our benefit. people like you ripping people on youtube to bits. LOSER !!!!

  • YOU CANNOT GET CLOUDS AT 40.000 F.A.S.L

  • Have to agree, don´t think(or am pretty sure) it is a CB, although they can appear at FL400 ofcourse

  • shooteraod....AAAAHAHAHAHAHA!!­!! that was a good one. who do you fly for? ex-USN here, so i've seen it all.

    also...who is that moron talkin about max altitude at FL400...he has probably never flown for real. also, this must be a heavy jet

  • this looks like a pretty good size cell if the tops are FL400...but thats impossble unless you're flying over the himalayas or something. also, no bumps???? must have been edited out :P

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  • Nothing like a good ole' cumulous cloud to ruin the day, :)

  • A lot of you "pilots" are going to fail ATPL met and FP.

  • ah wikipedia the missinformation of the internet

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  • @mattalmel23 well was flying yesterday at 36,000 ft, so god knows who you are flying with

  • @mattalmel23 Oh dear. Somebody's behind the times.

  • when i was flying, i saw dark clouds and lightning, but it was out of our path and off to my right :)

  • when iz the last time you say a  A321 FLYING AT 40,000 ft LOL THEY MAX at 38K NO MORE THAN THAT

  • @Vorox144 he actually said " we are nearly at 40,000ft " is everyone on youtube so anal about him not saying the exact alt.

  • i hate turblance so much sometimes i like it other times it scares me to death

  • awesome flightsimulator

  • And that Fool Pilot carried the plane through that stormy clouds which could explode the plane and raised it in higher altitude at the last moment. They should remember the Air France Tragedy in South Atlantic in 2010.

  • This happened to me on a return flight home from Orlando, Florida going over the state of Texas in the summer of 2009. The captain had to suspend beverage service due to considerable turbulence and also asked the flight attendants to take their seats. When it hit, it was pretty rough for a while. But the captain lowered altitude to go underneath the roughest part of it. It was pretty tense for a bit.

  • Nice clip, I googled "flying at 40,000 feet" and voila. Shame there are so bloody many experts on youtube though, wankers.

  • it looks like fsx lol

  • so this is over australia?

  • the height its just all wrong.

  • he's climbing for another altitude setting to avoid heavy turbulence from this fucking anvil cloud! Good job!

  • why did you stop filming?

  • For the people questioning the thunderstorms and clouds at this altitude clouds can reach up to 60000 ft in the tropics. And yes airliners do cruise at this altitude often only some jets can only get so high after while once some of the fuel has been used, but business jets regularly cruise at FL 500-550. The Concorde, on the other hand, would cruise at even up FL 580-600.

  • i would freak out as i hate flying haha

  • I'd once flown AirAsiaX at FL420 (42,000 feet)....... :-)

  • I don't know any planes that have a cruising altitude of 40,000 Ft. It's usually 35,000 or 38,000.

  • @MrSpongebob000 40,000 is about the highest they would go. Up to yesterday my uncle flew in on a Virgin Atlantic flight and their altitude was also 40,000 so yes they do cruise at this altitude. Last year i flew as well and coming back to NYC our cruising alt was 39,000 on a B 757.

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  • @MrSpongebob000 That's not really the case. The cruising altitude can be anything from 25,000 ft to 40,000 ft on regular passenger airliners (business jets and military aircraft go much higher). The cruising altitude depends on what has been assigned on the flight plan for that leg of the journey i.e. it might change later in the flight or the pilots or radar controller can request or assign an altitude change.

  • honestly, what is so amazing about that announcement??? I think I've heard it on almost every other flight with LH in 2007/2008 durong wintertime...

  • It is not surprising, cumuli-nimbi often arrives as high as 13-18Km (as to 50000 feet)

  • i would seriously freak if i heard that in my flight :0

  • eh and who shit their pants after that announcement lol

  • it looks like heaven :p wonder where Zeus is ?

  • how wuz that landing? rough?

  • Turbulance is the best! Makes a flight more exciting opposed to a boring one!

  • @speedbrds1 so true

  • if i was on that plane during that announcement, id be scared as hell

  • ur supposed 2 be 37,000 feet 40,00 is gravitational puull u could have got sucked in space and die jk but its 37,00 ft though

  • @hikingpain47

    your dumb. planes r not allowed to fly at 37,000, theyre only allowed at multiples of 4 dickhead. 40,000 is normal for usually international flights, domestic are usually 32,000 - 34,000.. and sometimes down at 24,000

  • @volcom1722

    In reality, aircraft are regulated by a 1 mile, 1,000 ft vert rule. Aircraft are to be seperated a minimum of 1,000 ft vertical distance, and 1 mile horizontal distance from another aircraft. Aircraft flight levels worldwide are based upon these basic rules. Flight level IS NOT A MULTIPLE OF 4! It is a base 1000 rule: Flights flying North or East fly at odd altitudes seperated by 1000 ft (330, 350, 370), while flights flying South or West fly at even altitudes (320, 340, 360).

  • Announcements like these scare the shit out of me.

  • cool vid!

  • FL 400 LOL

  • agree with beachbum383 , computerized voices scare me. Like on the dlr and tube train

  • 4 a start the airbus A319 A320 OR A321 u are on only goes up 2 -39042 feet any over could make some damage but never the less cool clip

  • @ozzyleolive a319, a320, a321 can fly as high as 41000 depending on load.

  • i think it must be 40,000 coz they will fly depend on to the Alt weather level

  • hey dude ;)

    sorry but you chose the wrong cloud typ in wikipedia ;)

    is is not a cumuli nimbus, this is just a normal cloud layer you know from a overcast :P

  • well to be precise it is an anvil cloud spreading out in the jetstream

  • @hugbear27 This is indeed a Cumuli numbus, otherwise known as a CB.

    These can range up to an altitude of atleast 11km..

    As a glider pilot, everything I've been told is; STAY THE HECK AWAY FROM EM.:! :)

  • @edmfflyer Cumili Nimbus clouds can extend up to 60,000 ft.

  • @edmfflyer I think mine may be a little better ... Youtube search "Light show - Cumulonimbus and lightning"

  • @edmfflyer why would it be overcast at 40,000ft?

  • @edmfflyer Maybe if you knew more about clouds you would know there are 4 types of clouds. Low, middle, high, and clouds with extensive vertical development. Clouds from sfc to 6,500 are stratus, middle are from 6,500 to 20,000 and they are alto, and high are cirrus. Clouds with extensive vert dev are cumulous. That being said there is nothing called a "normal cloud layer"...

  • @slowmocrow why dont you get fucked? Fuckin bird brain, your making out your some kind of hot shot pilot. Your a fuckin grub. Im a meterolologist and what your sayin isnt 100% accurate.

  • @Teltcher If you're the meteorologist, then by all means, tell us what he got wrong. As far as I can see, though, he pretty much nailed the cloud layers. Well, except for the fact he spelled cumulus wrong.

  • id crap myself, I hate turbulance in 737, dunno why just so small ?

  • Was it a scary ride then? were you scared when you saw the clouds and the cabin crew made that announcement?i would have been

  • This is NOT at FL 400 dude.

  • They should be flying around the thunderstorm...

  • u can't beat night flying I love it especially with a thunderstorm in ether night or day

  • Cumulonimbus Incus clouds can easily get up to 40,000 feet and when they hit the stratosphere, they anvil outward. Often, when the storm is powerful enough, it juts through into the stratosphere up to 50,000 feet. Please get your facts straight before you try to get smart.

  • The A320 has a service celling of 39,000 feet so IF you were flying at 40,000 feet you might have some stupid pilots, so in what I am trying to say, you were not flying at 40,000 feet

  • Holy Cow.

  • stop at 1:24 dat cloud near der rite side od der wing and screen looks like a face lolol

    i hate turbulances so much once i was walking bck from der toilet yh it smelt bad and a big 1 hit and ma knees bent i fell it was funny and all ma friend were pissing wiv me bout it der whole flight

  • @ljulian19 yeah.. it looks a face... a scary face lol

  • OMG That's Amazing

  • id be terrified!

  • Flying today I saw tops at FL450, 45,000 feet in my preflight checks. Thunderstorms have significant vertical development.

  • what did they suspend? oxugen masks? i couldnt understand that.

  • @player01able Cabin Service.

  • hiba kk!! karba commentba

  • so beautuful

  • they go in any direction to try find the ground

  • what plane was it ?

  • @1348az well its an Airbus, you can tell by looking at the wingtips...so I will say an Airbus A320 ish around there

  • What a lot of pish.!

  • Just want to say all you dicks are wrong you can get thunder storms at 40,000 feet the vidoe doesnt lie so stop being arsholes by sending wido comments

  • I've seen supercell thunderstorms that can hit over 50,000.