My first ever flight was as a 9 year old (1980) from Dublin to Malaga. We got caught in a storm over the Bay of Biscay and the plane ( BAC 111) was thrown around like a paper plane, with lightening flashes lighting up terrified adult faces while the aircraft fell, rolled climbed and pitched. I just assumed that this is what every flight was like so I wasnt at all flustered.
Many years ago i flew a Cessna 152 into a invisable rotor cloud north of Denver Colorado,it was severe turbulence at its best that poor little bird was all over the place for a good 60 seconds,i was just along for the ride, A lesson learned about being belted in properly!!!
A couple of points, One is that Jetstreams: move constantly over quite a wide range of latitudes, and typically share a modern jets cruising altitude of between 30,000 feet and 40,000 feet, they can travel at speeds of up to 280 miles an hour, always from west to east and are invisible to radar, this means that an aircraft with its engines at cruise revs will suddenly and dramatically lose lift when moving from typical air conditions into a Jetstream that is itself travelling at about 45% of the aircrafts cruising speed. The airflow over the aircrafts wings can be cut by almost half: hence these essentially instantaneous/colossal drops of 4000 to 6000 feet with passengers injuring themselves on ceiling panels. aircraft are fitted with seat-belts, for your safety please consider using them, particularly in Jetstream latitudes............(aircraft travelling north-south when ensnared by Jetstreams are also impacted: but differently, when transitioning into a Jetstream, the flight computers can be overwhelmed by information from so many censers and can do strange things?)
Hey Maximus great video. Love it. Wish the folks in the media would communicate this. They k own the truth but love to sensationalize. Sigh. I don’t like turbulence. It’s unnerving, my heart rate increases but I keep my seat belt on and when the sign is on I rarely get up.
I would 100% agree with keeping your belt in in a plane. I experienced a similar incident to the one this week about 20 years ago, also on Singapore Airlines and in about a similar geographical location to where this one took place. I was on the SQ322 flight to London on one of SQ's lovely and sadly missed 747-400's when the plane suddenly dropped by goodness how much. Lockers opened, tray tables dropped and the crew were serving soft drinks at the time so everyone had an orange juice shower. A couple of people had minor cuts and bruises but we just carried on to London feeling clammy and sticky and in need of a shower and change of clothes on arrival. A crew member said that the plane had dropped by about 1000 feet.
A few things to add. Pilots don’t really know when they’ll experience clear air turbulence. That’s why PIREPS (reports from other pilots to ATC are important. Convective air turbulence is another thing, meaning flying over t/storms…. EXPECT IT! The case of the SIA 777 earlier this week over Myanmar should not have been a surprise to the crew. It’s just starting monsoon season in the tropics and that is some of the worst air turbulence you’ll ever experience.
00:07 Check out the beard on that funny clipart guy. Is he a boat captain or something? LOL the airlines (except for one or two) would make him shave, for a tighter seal if he has to wear his oxygen mask...
Little iffy about the AI voice, Max. It sounds like it was trained on your voice? But it's definitely not you, and it falls pretty far into my audio uncanny valley.
We are in a dry area of central Thailand but most storms have been over Myanmar lately. That day was the beginning of rainy season and I could see the thunderheads rising high.
I have traveled with my seatbelt in my lap for more than twenty years because I know physics, and the most complex problems are always objects in non-inertial reference systems like a Bus, ship, or Plane.
Postscript: Sadly, Olivia is now paralyzed as a result of her reckless decision to stand in the aisle talking instead of remaining seated with her seatbelt securely fastened while in turbulence.
Yeah, this video sucks, especially how it glosses over the danger of wind shear. It also sucks because it's an American voice saying the family is going on "holiday."
That's why I always wear my seatbelt even when the flight is smooth.
I have my seatbelt on from gate to gate unless I get up to briefly pee
My first ever flight was as a 9 year old (1980) from Dublin to Malaga. We got caught in a storm over the Bay of Biscay and the plane ( BAC 111) was thrown around like a paper plane, with lightening flashes lighting up terrified adult faces while the aircraft fell, rolled climbed and pitched. I just assumed that this is what every flight was like so I wasnt at all flustered.
Many years ago i flew a Cessna 152 into a invisable rotor cloud north of Denver Colorado,it was severe turbulence at its best that poor little bird was all over the place for a good 60 seconds,i was just along for the ride, A lesson learned about being belted in properly!!!
ALWAYS SEATBELT Aussie Bob 😊
Great public service, Maximus!
Watch the outside air temperature...temp goes up..go up..temp goes down...go down..30,000 hours of experience..42 years
A couple of points, One is that Jetstreams: move constantly over quite a wide range of latitudes, and typically share a modern jets cruising altitude of between 30,000 feet and 40,000 feet, they can travel at speeds of up to 280 miles an hour, always from west to east and are invisible to radar, this means that an aircraft with its engines at cruise revs will suddenly and dramatically lose lift when moving from typical air conditions into a Jetstream that is itself travelling at about 45% of the aircrafts cruising speed. The airflow over the aircrafts wings can be cut by almost half: hence these essentially instantaneous/colossal drops of 4000 to 6000 feet with passengers injuring themselves on ceiling panels. aircraft are fitted with seat-belts, for your safety please consider using them, particularly in Jetstream latitudes............(aircraft travelling north-south when ensnared by Jetstreams are also impacted: but differently, when transitioning into a Jetstream, the flight computers can be overwhelmed by information from so many censers and can do strange things?)
Hey Maximus great video. Love it. Wish the folks in the media would communicate this. They k own the truth but love to sensationalize. Sigh. I don’t like turbulence. It’s unnerving, my heart rate increases but I keep my seat belt on and when the sign is on I rarely get up.
I would 100% agree with keeping your belt in in a plane. I experienced a similar incident to the one this week about 20 years ago, also on Singapore Airlines and in about a similar geographical location to where this one took place. I was on the SQ322 flight to London on one of SQ's lovely and sadly missed 747-400's when the plane suddenly dropped by goodness how much. Lockers opened, tray tables dropped and the crew were serving soft drinks at the time so everyone had an orange juice shower. A couple of people had minor cuts and bruises but we just carried on to London feeling clammy and sticky and in need of a shower and change of clothes on arrival.
A crew member said that the plane had dropped by about 1000 feet.
Best thumbnail *EVER.* I'm ded. 🤣☠
Wife misses your usual narration voice.
A few things to add. Pilots don’t really know when they’ll experience clear air turbulence. That’s why PIREPS (reports from other pilots to ATC are important.
Convective air turbulence is another thing, meaning flying over t/storms…. EXPECT IT!
The case of the SIA 777 earlier this week over Myanmar should not have been a surprise to the crew. It’s just starting monsoon season in the tropics and that is some of the worst air turbulence you’ll ever experience.
00:07 Check out the beard on that funny clipart guy. Is he a boat captain or something? LOL the airlines (except for one or two) would make him shave, for a tighter seal if he has to wear his oxygen mask...
Little iffy about the AI voice, Max.
It sounds like it was trained on your voice? But it's definitely not you, and it falls pretty far into my audio uncanny valley.
Cat that got the bird ✈️😖
Gotta say there are some dummies on here today Max. Aussie Bob. 😂
Is this a rule that even a rule that Homer Simpson could easily follow?
We are in a dry area of central Thailand but most storms have been over Myanmar lately. That day was the beginning of rainy season and I could see the thunderheads rising high.
Looks like a high altitude stall to me.
I have traveled with my seatbelt in my lap for more than twenty years because I know physics, and the most complex problems are always objects in non-inertial reference systems like a Bus, ship, or Plane.
Half truthful. Who paid for that Announcement? Current operating Airlines?
Postscript: Sadly, Olivia is now paralyzed as a result of her reckless decision to stand in the aisle talking instead of remaining seated with her seatbelt securely fastened while in turbulence.
Harmless?
Didn't an old man just die because of it?
He had a heart attack from the stress
@@sharedsailing4787 Stress induced from?
Yeah, this video sucks, especially how it glosses over the danger of wind shear. It also sucks because it's an American voice saying the family is going on "holiday."