Re:Eclipse viewing at 30k feet: Delta to offer path-of-total...
by qazxcvbnmlp on Thursday February 22, 2024 @03:46PM
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I took a sightseeing flight around Mt Everest (within the last year). The flight crew explicitly told everyone to move to one side of the plane while we were in the air.
I doubt everyone moving side to side when the plane isn’t taking off or landing is going to automatically cause a crash.
Re:Eclipse viewing at 30k feet: Delta to offer path-of-total...
by sandworm101 on Thursday February 22, 2024 @03:54PM
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Not a crash, but having a few thousand pounds of cargo shift from side to side will be noticed. But what can actually cause a crash is moving front-to-back. Shift 200 people, say 40,000lbs of cargo, front to back can disrupt the cg enough to cause real trouble.
So I was on a flight from London to Vancouver, which had us approaching Vancouver from the north. It was December but a sunny day. Half the passengers were on ski holidays. We had to delay our arrival a while so the pilot said he was going to bank the plane to the left and do a circle, which would put the Whistler-Blackcomb ski resort in view out the left side. In unison, seatbelts be damned, everyone on the right of the plane got up and moved left to get pictures. About half-way through the turn, the pilot came back: "Um, we felt that up here. When you return to your seats can you please do so slowly, at least slower than how fast you moved to the left." Pre-9/11 was a simpler time.