Timeline for How do I intentionally fly into turbulence?
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| Sep 28, 2023 at 20:35 | comment | added | Anonymous Physicist | @StevePemberton You are correct on all counts. I don't know why so many people didn't understand the question. | |
| Sep 28, 2023 at 14:48 | comment | added | Steve Pemberton | Azendale - since they didn't specify a level of turbulence I don't think they are limiting it to levels that they have personally experienced in whatever type of flying they have done. I interpret "within reason" as relating to safety not the experience. But that's just my interpretation. Your didn't feel weird example sounds like the turbulence itself wasn't dangerous, it was the weather conditions that you were in that were dangerous which you realized later. The question excludes dangerous conditions, as clarified by the OP in a later comment. | |
| Sep 28, 2023 at 14:18 | history | edited | Azendale | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 28, 2023 at 14:12 | comment | added | Azendale | @StevePemberton Some of this question could be "how can I replicate a feeling I haven't experienced any other way". Both freight and airlines are large planes less affected by turbulence, than a lighter, small, low wing loading GA aircraft, like a Kitfox 7. So has OP experienced GA turbulence? Note that extremes is not in one scale: you have extremes of safety and extremes of how it feels. I have been in turbulence that didn't feel very weird at the time, but looking back it it was actually dangerous. Is having a buddy input large random inputs in a GA plane well under Va a valid answer? | |
| Sep 28, 2023 at 14:04 | comment | added | Steve Pemberton | Azendale - I agree on first reading it's a little vague, but the needed information is there. The OP pointed out in a later comment that passenger travel would be off-topic, and in fact in the question they used the term "plan a flight" instead of select a flight. Passengers plan trips, pilots plan flights. And the lack of specificity about the level of turbulence other than the "within reason" qualifier means that while dangerous extremes are excluded, the OP is not limiting answers to a specific level of turbulence. And the "fun" qualifier implies more than just making your coffee swirl. | |
| Sep 28, 2023 at 13:38 | comment | added | Azendale | @StevePemberton I think one of the things that makes answering this question hard is we are lacking some context: is this person a pilot or just a part 121 (scheduled airline) passenger? "fun ride" sounds like 121 passenger, but "plan my flight" sounds like part 91 pilot. The "common" sense needed to evaluate "within reason" could very well not be in common between those groups. Remember that freight pilots say "boxes don't bitch" where part 121 pilots work to to avoid (escape when encountered) turbulence freight would consider minor. | |
| Sep 28, 2023 at 13:12 | comment | added | Steve Pemberton | Dangerous turbulence is excluded with the OP's qualifier "within reason". Turbulence by its nature involves unpredictable movement in all directions, which is part of the appeal to those who find it fun (at least it is for me). Parabolic arcs, or aerobatics as was also suggested would not be the same thing. My definition of fun is a level where for example it is difficult or even impossible to walk down the aisle of an airliner because of pitching in all directions. Although I only find that fun if the flight attendants and all passengers are safely seated. Mountains seems to be a good answer. | |
| Sep 27, 2023 at 16:34 | history | edited | Azendale | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 27, 2023 at 14:54 | history | answered | Azendale | CC BY-SA 4.0 |