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I'm not refuting you, but now I'm genuinely curious. We all know or think of turbulence like hitting bumps in the road, shaking, etc.. I was on a shorthaul, s

by axaxs 6y ago

I'm not refuting you, but now I'm genuinely curious. We all know or think of turbulence like hitting bumps in the road, shaking, etc.. I was on a shorthaul, some embraer or similar sized plane, and experienced this only once. We kept hitting those big 'bumps', then I'd feel the plane dive down or up quickly. The kind that gives you the feeling in your stomach, like going over a hill as a kid in a car. In my head to this day I assumed the pilot was quickly trying to find an elevation to avoid the turbulence, but your comment implies that's incorrect. So those quick pitches are also a form of turbulence? It was stomach turning, and honestly made me a bit uneasy.

ncmncm 6y ago
What you call turbulence is really just a mass of air moving at a different speed or in a different direction, and the plane moved out of one into the next. So, e.g., the plane passes into a downdraft near a cloud, and then into an updraft under the cloud, then into another downdraft, and then out. You feel four lurches. The pilot might be looking for a path that stays away from those, but you won't feel anything the pilot does.