First of all THANK YOU for your site! It is the only one I know of that is so comprehensive and informative and lets you write in with questions. You always answer with thoughtful and easily understood responses. It really helps me to be a more confident flyer.
My question to you today is what wind speed is too high to take off/cruise/land safely?
I have a flight tomorrow morning from EDI to LHR and right now the wind is South Southwest at 28 mph with gusts up to 43 mph! Tomorrow morning is supposed to be about the same and I am getting nervous about my flight.
I would rather them just cancel it than chance a dangerous situation. But what wind speed is too fast to fly?
Many, many thanks!
What would airports do in the event of an approaching tornado?Do tornadoes affect aviation in the same way that micro-bursts do?I would like some answers to these questions if you have them.
I was just reading your latest post on someone asking, " What if an engine catches fire in the air? " I understand that the Boeing 777 is one of the safest airlines but I did not get to read much about Airbus A330 in your website. May I know what do you think of the Airbus A330?
It seems like many airlines are using Airbus to those places which are less than 7 or 8 hours. I will be flying on A330 in a few days' time and hope to hear about this from you. I am trying to calm myself down and be prepared to fly
This is a great website. I have read through many of your entries and it does make me feel more confident. However, I have a very real fear/anxiety about flying. I live in Australia, so everything is VERY far away! I am however keen to travel to the UK later this year and wonder if you could tell me where a plane could land if it lost power or malfunctioned when traveling from Australia to Europe.
If traveling via Singapore or Dubai, there is a lot of water giving more likelihood to a crash occurring while you are over the water... as the nearest airport would be very far away! Hence, this is exacerbating my fears of nose diving into water and not being able to get out of the plane ...consequently drowning!
How do the doors on the plane open if the water pressure from outside is pushing against them? Also, are there any circumstances that would cause a plane to actually nose dive?
I always get very nervous during turbulence and don't understand fully what causes the plane to bump up and down, so thanks for helping me... I'm trying to get over my fears!
Thank you for this website. As an aspiring pilot of 17 years old, I find this website very interesting and it answers all my anxious aviation questions.
Anyways, I noticed that in the "Emergencies" section under "Flying", I did not see any questions pertaining to a fire outside the plane. I want to ask what would happen if an engine caught fire. How would the pilot react in this situation? What damages can be done to the plane within the short period of time that the plane catches fire?
I will greatly appreciate your response to my question.
I have just read on the Web-News that Cathay Pacific decided to sack the senior pilot of the new Boeing 777 which flew from Seattle to Hong Kong because he did a turn around and performed a low fly-by before departing. He went as low as 28 feet above the runway.
Do you know what happened? I think there must be some reasons for such an experienced pilot to do what he did.
hai...i'm also got the same problems...