It's not severe turbulence unless the flight crew shout "sit down NOW" over the intercom ! That happened to me on a descent through storm clouds into Bologna, with objects and people flying around the cabin. Not nice.
Yeah as a passenger I was waiting for the severe part throughout the entire video. I’ve been in what I’d call severe, landing in stormy weather on the West coast of Norway where sea meets tall mountains. Felt like the whole plane being pushed in three different angles at the same time, almost as if aerodynamics and engine power didn’t matter. Seconds later from completely different directions… People screaming, locals telling me how they had never been in such a bad one. It was only after arrival, travelling in the bus along the sea, seeing waves crashing that I understood how the forces of nature were at swing. It was also the most stunning and spectacular view and light and landing I had ever experienced but I was shaking for half an hour after landing. I’ve been afraid of flying ever since. At least in Northern Europe.
😂 I knew it wasn’t worth watching when I started the video! Yet I still held on to see the “severe” turbulence. There’s more turbulence on a wooden roller coaster.
At least on camera, that appeared to be light turbulence. As a frequent flyer, I've experienced a wide range. Worst was on a flight to Brazil, when we hit a rough patch that caused the plane to unexpectedly plummet. I was stupidly not wearing my seat belt, jolted out of my seat, and hit my head on the ceiling above me. I was ok, thankfully, but that experience taught me to keep my seat belt fastened whenever seated.
I agree - I kept waiting for the "severe" part, but then a passenger who's maybe never experienced true severe turbulence will consider any to be such 😄.
For those commenting on how long the flaps were out. That departure off ZQN RWY23 has speed and altitude requirements. The flap can’t be retracted until after passing those constraints (approx 10000ft). Going by the cabin, it looks like it is an Air New Zealand A321-Neo.
That was light to moderate turbulence at the most. Flaps out for ‘so long’ nothing to do with turbulence. More to do with the terrain, the high acceleration altitude and the fact that you don’t want to clean up and be headed in the opposite direction to where you’re going at high speed.
True but mostly flaps being delayed is because of noise abatement on take off (higher acceleration altitude) best performance or angle of climb is with clean flaps at a certain low speed (airbus calls it green dot)
I’m a student pilot training for commercial aviation. Believe you me, when I say that that was the mild side of light turbulence. I haven’t even been in “severe turbulence” yet and I fly multiple times per week.
When your head is hitting off the roof of the plane, your eyeballs are shaking so much you can hardly read the instruments(good luck trying to enter in a new radio frequency or QNH), as for keeping the wings level or the aircraft on course or at an assigned height, only mother nature decides that...
Queenstown take off and departure pattern is different from other airports and this take off is perfect. The high angle turns are to avoid the nearby mountain climbing heights.
You flew into weather; there's no question about it. Often times, camera footage may not reflect, what you might be experiencing inside. I was a medevac nurse/ paramedic , and with each bumpy flight, they became less intimidating. There were times, when we were bounced everywhere, but by the time I was ready to end this aspect of my career, what would have been totally scary, was not scary at all.
Thankfully, most passengers will only experience light to a moderate turbulence at an altitude. Just to give you some frame of reference, in a severe turbulence you won't be able to stand, walk or hold your camera, you may momentary lose the control of the aircraft (if you're a pilot). In the extreme turbulence, you can't see instruments clearly, and loss of control is more pronounced (up to a full loss of control). I've experienced major turbulence in the cockpit, in the pressurized cargo area, and as a passenger. For some reason, flying as a passenger it feels the worst (especially when overhead bins open and luggage falls down when flying over Atlantic. Yes, it did happen to me). Suggestion, become a pilot, then you are sort of in control 🙂 Fly safe!
At best, this is mild turbulence as much as I've seen. I flew from Singapore to Manila through the foothills of a typhoon, and we had 3 hours of really moderate turbulence. The plane was going up and down, left and right throughout. I could hardly sleep because I was always banging my head against the window. It was really annoying...
Severe turbulence is marked by an inability to hold your phone still enough to film anything. Like other have said that's mild. I've bashed my head against the side of the window in one thunderstorm.
With my luck one time, I was in the bathroom when I heard the flight attendant say something about returning to our seats. The plane dropped and I bonked my head on the bathroom ceiling. Sigh. Making it back to my seat in turbulence was like running a marathon.
You know what really calms people during flight anxiety? Not having someone else filming the experience like they're expecting something to happen!!!! F*********
I love flying out of ZQN. One of my fave departure airports. Didn't look like severe turbulence. Looks like light chop. You need to fly into and out of Wellington for turbulence!
Here in the US we call that light turbulence at most. Severe turbulence is when you see people flying up and down from their seats and baggage falling down all over the cabin., nice take off though.
I've had rougher trips to the toilet! Ive also been on a flight with severe turbulence, where a stewardess hit the ceiling, overhead lockers bursting open and everything flying about and literally everyone screaming.
That wasn’t even moderate turbulence.😂 You’d have known severe turbulence by hearing the passengers screaming in utter panic and objects flying about the cabin. Oh, by the way….9,000 hour pilot here who has been in severe turbulence.
When you are a nervous flyer all turbulence is scary and severe. Just remember it’s uncomfortable but it’s safe. Allow your body to go with the bumps like on a rollercoaster. Then remind yourself that turbulence is like going on a bumpy road in a car or bus.
Took off from Oahu during a rain storm. Pilot waited until a little clear and off we went. Normal when you pass through clouds and if it’s windy. Nothing the plane can’t handle. Nerve racking a bit. Haha. Once you go over the clouds is smooth sailing.
“severe turbulence” has a very specific definition such as substantial change in speed/altitude and momentary loss of control (remembered from my pilot’s exam). When I flew with my wife over the mountains we were like sitting in roller coaster and she kept throwing out. I was only willing to call it a “moderate turbulence” as I was still positively controlling the aircraft. It was not something fun but nothing dangerous. I would not call the situation in the video even a light chop. To make it several, I expect at least see flight attendants get tossed around along with the baggages.
If you want to see severe/extreme turbulence, watch the passenger videos of the LATAM A320 😮 That looked terrifying. This seems pretty usual for a few lumps and bumps on takeoff.
My prayer life springs into play every time I fly in bumpy weather. At least with the airlines, you are covering ground fast and the pilots can try to find smoother air up high.
That was most definitely not 'Severe' turbulence. Maybe light to moderate. Severe turbulence is when the aircraft is violently bouncing between 2000 to 3000 ft in altitude, overhead compartment doors open on their own and carry-on luggage spills onto people's heads, items loose in the cabin float in the air with each drop as passengers scream in terror, and the wings begin to flap up and down like a bird. Most people never experience heavy or 'severe' turbulence, but if you do, you will never forget it.
The only airline I know (and I fly number of airlines during a year) that cancelled frequent flying points which expired due to Covid!! A mean spirited company! (and Im a NZ'er)
This is light to moderate chop filmed by a nervous flyer. Their perspective on this would change if they ever took flight lessons or a trip in a small plane. Little bumps, this. When your body starts getting thrown around, THATS turbulence.
I flew 2 weeks out of every month for years and I'll be honest, that is what seasoned flyers would call a bumpy take-off. I remember landing in Menphis with multiple tornados on the ground in close proximity to the airport. People were screaming and some praying. I'll be honest, I didn't think I would stand on the ground in one piece again.
In 2007 the Transavia Boeing 737 "Tamarinde" from Venice to Amsterdam flew into a cumulonimbus cloud because the air was filled with it, and suddenly it seemed if someone kicked the plane aside. We fell down a couple of minutes and the pilot had lost the controls completely. Everyone screamed, men and women. I did' nt because I am a pilot myself and was looking if we could escape the fall. And after a couple of minutes the plane got the controls back and then everybody wanted an explanation from the captain. He did not say a word until five minutes later his tiny voice sounded: "From now on it only can be better!"
That’s very normal flight bro, sort of no turbulence at all, I sincerely thought you haven’t flown in a light aircraft during bad weather, you’ll experienced hell bro…
Once when I was a passenger on a 737 approaching Oslo Airport, we had some sudden turbulence where a woman that hadn't fastened her seatbelt was eject from her seat into the ceiling and hit her head, a flight attended also injured her arm, the shaking only lasted for a few seconds but thats my worst experience flying.
I’m an aircraft dispatcher and fly frequently - i know it seems severe to many passengers, but realistically, you encountered a few seconds of moderate turbulence interspersed with some light chop. Most of the ascent appeared to be quite pleasant actually given the mountainous terrain and weather.
At no time in this video did I see "severe turbulence". If you ever do actually experience severe turbulence, you and 90% of the passengers will never forget it. If you aren't belted in, you'll float. It's the most frightened I've ever been in my life. Summertime around 1982, flying into Dallas-Ft. Worth to change planes (and underwear!) We dropped hundreds, maybe even thousands of feet in less than 3 seconds. I honestly thought my life was going to be ended in a damn McDonnell -Douglas Stretch DC-8!
People are always labeling mild turbulence as "severe" turbulence. Severe turbulence means anything not tied down would be flying around the cabin and people screaming like they're on a roller coaster.
Light turbulence = Body pulls up against seat belt. Moderate turbulence = Seat breaks. Head hits ceiling of plane. Severe turbulence = Head goes through ceiling of plane LOL
This was similar to what happened when I was on a flight from Auckland to Dunedin. The pilot changed course to Christchurch to refuel then we flew back to Auckland.
It’s due to a minimum climb gradient on an RNAV departure due to terrain. You literally do a full climbing circle up to 12,000ft and your max speed is 180 knots which is well below clean speed. Has nothing to do with the bumps but the SID requirements. There wasn’t even much turb either, hardly any aileron deflection.
This amount of turbulence was nothing compared to when I was on a 737 from LAX to SFO when the wings looked like they were flapping like a bird. According to weather map, we crossed the jet stream. I don't know for sure if that was the cause of the turbulence, but I suspect that it was.
As a nervous flyer, I can’t stand any turbulence. Thankfully I’ve never been in severe turbulence (or probably not even moderate turbulence to be honest), but ANY turbulence or bumpiness makes me a wreck. 😢
Watching Just Planes videos of takeoffs and landings has gotten rid of my fear of turbulence. Pilots are so freaking calm during a bumpy landing or takeoff😂
The vulnerability of humans when boxed inside an aluminium can and pitted against the forces of nature.........hoping and praying that the 2 lads up front with their reassuring voices have everything under control.
My dad flies for American. He told me he’s only hit severe turbulence once in his career. It was landing over in Asia. They were having a typhoon and he said people were screaming and throwing up. Power full then reduce…engine roar then quiet. Apparently he nailed the landing so he says lol. Ya severe turbulence stuff starts to fall out of bins, go airborne etc. In my opinion most people think severe turbulence is moderate at most.
Yeah we get it, people put literally anything in the title to get the views. This isn’t even moderate, great video but I see nothing even beyond light chop/turbulence here. 🤦🏼♂️
I'm not trying to minimize you're fright by any means, but this is NOT severe turbulence. At most, this was light to occasional moderate. In a severe turbulence event, people would have been violently thrown against their seat belts, and you'd have heard all sorts of noises in the cabin as baggage, beverage carts in the galleys, etc etc get slammed around even while still in their stowage areas. There are several videos of such events, check them out--one of which is the British Airways 777 over South America.
It’s nothing. Some years back, I was on a flight with severe turbulence. All the passengers on the starboard side had to grab and hold on to the wing, to prevent it from breaking off from the fuselage…
Was this your first time in an airplane? That "severe turbulence" at 7:03 is actually considered "light chop" and is routine in almost every flight at some point.
Did the severe turbulence part of the video get accidentally edited out? Because all I saw was some light chop. This was smooth compared to what I experienced flying over the Rockies in Montana one time and landing in a severe windstorm in the Bay Area another time. There were people puking on both planes...this was nothing.
A few things. He kept his flaps extended far longer then he should have, which means he was trying to get above the turbulence as fast as possible. I was on a flight that did this. We took off from Utah and rapidly climbed to 20k feet within about 4 minutes. I didn't know a passenger plane could do what he did...and it was severe! On another flight, a lady asked me why the flight was so rough, to which the UPS pilot across from her said, "lady, this is nothing, passenger planes fly around the worst stuff, I fly through it. You're more then welcome to ride with me and see what turbulence is all about!"
Not longer than he should have. Longer than you are used to on more standard take-off procedures. However, absolutely correct for a steep climbing turn in terrain where you are climbing at relatively low airspeeds in an attitude which offers reduced lift (banking) in variable winds and moisture. Textbook take off.
Sueño con viajar a ese bello país!!!..... Y en estas latitudes, al sur del mundo, es natural algo de turbulencias. Un abrazo desde Osorno, sur de Chile❤🇨🇱
That's wat we call a normal bus ride as a frequent flyer. I've seen people getting thrown up from there seats in turbulence who weren't strapped in their seatbelts.
I was on the same flight route few years ago and we had also a weather situation during Auckland approach. That was severe, the whole plane screamed in one when we descended (fell?😂) into the stormy clouds. The captain warned the passengers before, it'll be "bumpy" but noone thought that'll be way bumpy...
@@Tintenkobold Not always. In the stormy clouds, there are strong up and down streams, and if you go throught these streams you can feel yourself in a strong uplift and then immedately a strong descent which caused by the downstream. That feels like a fell and you can experience the same as freefall, you can see things levitating in the cabin. As a glider pilot i am experienced this a lot of times in heavy thermal turbulences.
@@rehot yeah that's true and airliners crashed because of that. But it's not what most people experience as turbulence. Especially in this video which shows nothing dangerous or "severe".
@@Tintenkobold The turbulence which is caused by the different speed of wind layers usually at cruise altitude and criuse speed. Yeah, that's what people calls "turbulence" during the flight. On takeoff and landing turbulence is more often caused by local up and downstreams or ground level wind or windshear. The most dangeorus downstream (near the ground) which causes crashes is the microburst. And yes, i can agree, this video doesn't show any type of severe turbulence :) I didn't shot a video during my turbulent approach to Auckland, it would be more interesting, but always good to see any video contains an AirNewZealand flight.
Interesting catch that he turns out and heads straight for the disturbance in the clouds rather than going around it.Maybe due to fuel limitations of course, but yes thrown around a bit bumpy up there matey well caught.
I've had worst experience when I had a flight from Brisbane to Melbourne going through an ash cloud from a volcanic eruption, we had to circle for a long duration trying to find a break through the clouds
Had a plane land on grass and do a go around at Queenstown when I was last there. Mountains being the biggest attraction to Queenstown also cause a lot of disturbed air. So it can kinda be apart of the deal.
great scenary on departure, I guessed it would be the when flying through the clouds .. I flew from London City Airport last week and there were a few shakes as we flew though the clouds, it's not comfortable but not worrying either. Mid flight clear air turbulence is worse and as a passenger harder to spot too. Happy travelling!
Had a similar situation taking off from Gatwick and as a nervous flyer it definitely got me nervous😂 This was in summer though and I hadn’t flown in 3 years and the last time in 2019 it felt like the plane was dropping over mountains. Love travelling and airports but hate flying.
You did not experience severe turbulence, it was light to moderate turbulence if anything. Serve turbulence is when things start falling from overhead bins.
