skadanks
05-22-2008, 08:56 PM
This is something I discovered by accident as a kid. I was on a Western Airlines(yeah remember them?) 727 from LAX to SFO. I remember the flight started getting a little bumpy. I lifted my feet off the floor and noticed I didn't feel the turbulence as much.
I'm now 31 and I still use this method to help alleve the perception of turbulence. I'm not sure why it works, but it does. I guarantee you that if you simply lift your feet off the floor of plane you will only feel about half the turbulence. On a recent flight from L.A. to Mexico City, me and my friends were on a very turbulent flight. It was bumpy almost from the second we took off till the time we landed and we were being tossed around pretty bad for most the 3 and a half hours there. When it got really bad, I told my travel buddies to give the foot method a try and they agreed it worked. My only guess is that your feet plain an instrumental role in sending signals to your brain about stability. So when your feet are no longer planted, you don't have less signals going to your brain telling it that you are being tossed about. Just a theory. But whatever the case it works!
Another thing that helps tremendously in turbulence, if you are lucky enough to be on a plane that is lightly occupied is to lay horizontally across the seats. You don't perceive the movement as much, especially the up and down movement as wind sheer can cause. Once again, I think it's just the fact that your feet are not vertically planted on the floor that lessens the sensation of turbulence.
I'm now 31 and I still use this method to help alleve the perception of turbulence. I'm not sure why it works, but it does. I guarantee you that if you simply lift your feet off the floor of plane you will only feel about half the turbulence. On a recent flight from L.A. to Mexico City, me and my friends were on a very turbulent flight. It was bumpy almost from the second we took off till the time we landed and we were being tossed around pretty bad for most the 3 and a half hours there. When it got really bad, I told my travel buddies to give the foot method a try and they agreed it worked. My only guess is that your feet plain an instrumental role in sending signals to your brain about stability. So when your feet are no longer planted, you don't have less signals going to your brain telling it that you are being tossed about. Just a theory. But whatever the case it works!
Another thing that helps tremendously in turbulence, if you are lucky enough to be on a plane that is lightly occupied is to lay horizontally across the seats. You don't perceive the movement as much, especially the up and down movement as wind sheer can cause. Once again, I think it's just the fact that your feet are not vertically planted on the floor that lessens the sensation of turbulence.