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Learning To Fly
https://youtu.be/s5BJXwNeKsQ
Wow I need a geography lesson as I dont know where that is but praise God for their safety. I panic even hitting the slightest turbulence and visibly pray. LoL I remember when a kind passenger sitting next to me offered me Xanax. We ended up talking rest of flight. Good for our nerves.
Other than an aborted landing attempt in a DC-9 in Oklahoma years ago, the most tossed I’ve ever been on approach was in an Airbus a319 coming into Denver - I think the new airport.
I don’t know if that’s normal or not, for that area. But if I had to go there again in an Airbus a319 I’m not sure I’d do it. I don’t know how many of them are still flying these days, though.
The only time I can relax during a flight is a cruise altitude. The rest is white-knuckle. The cross winds were so bad at Portland PDX once that I was surprised the tires didn’t explode on landing.
I remember landing in Wellington, New Zealand a couple of years back flying in from Auckland and Wellington is notorious for approaches like this. I had watched every YouTube video to prepare myself for it but until we touched down I was clinging to my arm rests and praying. One of my scariest ever.
They finally got the engines going again.
Anyone with free time should check youtube...lots of videos that give some idea of how unnerving it could be...particularly for first timers.
Does this aircraft have a reputation for stability issues? That looks very odd, not just turbulence, like it’s on the verge of uncontrollable yaw. Wouldn’t take much to roll it completely over from the looks of that.