Air Turbulence Tips

Air turbulence is a concern for many fearful fliers. Flyinganxiety.com provides simple tips for air turbulence & explanations of why air turbulence happens. We have i-phone apps for turbulence.
(F) Capt Simmons is an airline pilot who also teaches seminars in the NY area.

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[res340]

I have a fear of flying even though the statistics show it's much safer than driving. I've gone on 22 flights and still am going back and forth booking a trip from NY to Vegas cause of my fear. How strong are the wings? They look breakable when you watch them bending up and down.

[FlyingAnxiety]

@res340 They are stronger then anything an airplane can encounter. There are some great videos on youtube that Boeing put out showing the final testing of the B-777 wings. To give you another example, back in the 1990's there was a terrorist incident on a FedEx DC-10 when a fellow employee attack the flight crew in the cockpit. The aircraft fell out of control & roll inverted several times. That is an incredible amount of negative g's.However, the wing didn't snap off & they landed safely.

[deneveux]

Thanks for this, especially the tips on how to minimise/avoid turbulence. No matter how much I read about turbulence being safe I still get sick with panic when it happens :(

[FlyingAnxiety]

@deneveux It helps to have as much air circulation as possible. That's why we pilots usually cold chill the cabin in turbulence. So, make sure the air vents are on you, & if you in a row by yourself then use all three vents.

[AlexisCamille]

Boeing is much better than AirBus. Boeing has many safety secondory options if things got out of control. why not put parachute instead of life vest for water. I mean were in the air not in the ship. That is one thing that bugs my mind since I was a kid, why not parachute, instead of life vest, can somebody tell me. thanks

[FlyingAnxiety]

@AlexisCamille I concur. I prefer Boeing to Airbus. Putting parachute to a jet would add extra weight. Designers figure it's better to add safety features instead to prevent plane crashes in the first place. Also, since the last ten years they really improve the cabin, cabin seats to make it stronger & more fire resistant. The benefit paid off if you think about the Jamaican crash a year ago & the Colombian crash last month which everyone survived also.

[Jim987445]

Nice of Stephen Hawking to do the voice over for this,

[CaptianSlurpie]

Turbulence can be fun

[res340]

The fear is preventing me from going to see Giants/49ers tomorrow.

[famousyouth]

the narrator is funny..lol.."dont try putting a glass of water a tray while driving" and "turbulence have more of an effect on the fearful flier than the plane itself" lol

[ROTAX129]

@res340 Actually, a single wing of an airplane can take the weight up to 35 volkswagen golfs.

[merbethmango]

violently that I thought that I was going to die. Literally, if I looked out the window on my side, I would see the ground. If I looked out the window at my mom, my brother, and my grandmother's side, I would see the sky. And then it would switch back and fourth. I do nott know what kind of turbulence that was. All I know is that I thought I was going to die. & what's weird is that the back part of the plane seemed to get it the most and the roughest and that is where my family & I were sitting.

[merbethmango]

passengers on board shrieked a little. The plane dropped, SHOT back up, dropped down, shot back up, dropped back down again, started shaking side to side (left right, left right, left right) , shot back up again, and dropped back down. It was like that for about 10 minutes and then it just stopped. There were no clouds around us so I don't know where that came from. It was just clear air. Now I had experienced turbulence before but nothing as bad as that. It was scary. The plane was shaking so

[merbethmango]

back home from Florida. I also wasn't nervous at all because the plane going to florida was extremely smooth. I don't even remember any turbulence at all on that plane. Anyways, about 20 minutes after takeoff, I was listening to "Light Of Day" by Bruce Springsteen with my dad, when all of a sudden, the plane drops (and it wasn't even the front part. It was more the back part of the plane which is where my dad amd I were sitting.) This scared us because it was out of nowhere. Me, and a few other

[merbethmango]

think "weeee!" everytime we dropped a little. After that, I could handle turbulence but that didn't stop me from being a little nervous every time I went on an airplane. So, the last time I went on an airplane, I was not nervous at all. I was about 14 years old when my family decided to go visit my grandpa in Florida as part of our Christmas break vacation. I was not nervous one bit. I had my ipod. I was listening to my music. I was fine. So, my family and I get on the plane to go back home

[merbethmango]

I don't know what type of turbulence this is, but it made me scared of flying (as if I wasn't a little nervous before! the first time I really remember experiencing at that time what I thought was bad turbulence was when I was 9, and I was going into Florida. The plane dropped a little but then it would bounce back up. This scared me because I did not know what this was at the time. Anyways, after that, in order to not scare myself, I taught myself to think of it as like a roller coaster and

[0127sadie]

I wonder what happen to Air France?