re: Delta airline nose dive twice 34000 feet

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I would have stolen so much scotch from that cart that dumped over

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I was wondering what Lootie has been up to these days

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where you at on that app process baw?

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Stuck in a rut right now. Doing SOS at Maxwell until the end of the month. I've only flown once this year so far. Planning to hit the flying hard starting in March and get that final push to 1500tt. Should be full up by mid-Summer.

Ahh, it's definitely in so to speak. Hopeful, but not really expecting anything until I hit that mark.

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poor route selection by dispatcher, and concurred on by CA, boxed themselves in, not much room to deviate east because of mil areas in NV

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No doubt about that. Just seeing the satellite imagery yesterday was enough to know a route like that would be sketchy. Maybe they tried to avoid in the incoming precip but with it all driven by a strong Pacific jet, getting on the east side of the peaks was going to yield some nasty wind activity.

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nose diving

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Yeah I get that, but at first looking at the thread title I thought the plane performed a rapid, uncontrolled decent for 34,000 ft. Not turbulence.

My cousin Walter jerked off in public once. True story. He was on a plane to New Mexico when all of a sudden the hydraulics went. The plane started spinning around, going out of control, so he decides it's all over and whips it out and starts beating it right there. All the other passengers take a cue from him and they start whipping it out and beating like mad. So all the passengers are beating off, plummeting to their certain doom, when all of the sudden, snap! The hydraulics kick back in. The plane rights itself and it lands safely and everyone puts their pieces or, whatever, you know, away and deboard. No one mentions the phenomenon to anyone else.

Damn. They should charge extra for that.

For our posters queasy about flying, the more you know!

Mountain Waves are associated with severe turbulence, strong vertical currents, and icing.

Loss of Control and / or Level Bust. The vertical currents in the waves can make it difficult for an aircraft to maintain en route altitude leading to level busts and can cause significant fluctuations in airspeed potentially leading, in extremis, to loss of control. Loss of Control can also occur near to the ground prior to landing or after take off with a risk of terrain contact or a hard landing if crew corrective response to a downdraft is not prompt.
Turbulence. Aircraft can suffer structural damage as a result of encountering severe clear air turbulence. In extreme cases this can lead to the break up of the aircraft. In even moderate turbulence, damage can occur to fittings within the aircraft especially as a result of collision with unrestrained items of cargo or passenger luggage. If caught unaware, passengers and crew walking around the aircraft cabin can be injured.