My third journey happened to be my journey to San Juan (Puerto Rico) - this is my first commercial airplane journey. It is no where close to my previous flights. If I was blindfolded and put in the airplane there would be no way of me knowing that I am on a plane except for the screwed up thing that happens in the ears (thats because of the pressure drop i guess - some one enlighten me on this).
I had both interesting journeys and boring journeys. I had hot chicks, awesome guys, boring people sit next to me through the journeys - never met awesome chicks yet on plane :P. If you ever travel in groups make sure u dont sit together.Airplanes are awesome places to meet new people. Some end up grumpy but i liked most of my journeys because i found interesting neighbours. I would suggest getting some conversation openers before u start your journeys. I like the international journeys more because you get enough time to move around and talk to others. Usually the planes are bigger on international journeys and the passengers are bored enough to talk to strangers :) The air hostesses are better looking too!
Dont order Indian food on international journeys unless u are a strict vegan. what is the point if u eat the same thing and live the same way when u go to a different place? If you do order by mistake convince the neighbour to try out your food and take his food off :P I will post a second post if i remember anything else
About meeting interesting people the guy standing next to me owns this place http://www.vangogc.com/. I have mentioned in facebook that this guy had 15 ppl working for him by the time he graduated. What I liked the best was the way he made me remember his website! He asked if I heard of van gogh - which I strangely knew. Then he asked to replace the last letter with c and voila i found his website now after 15 days after I met him!
hey.. nice to hear ur experiences ra.. hope i will hear more...:)
ReplyDeleteP.S :u r rite about change in pressure coz of increase in altitute ur ear has some fluids flowing in and out (internally)which sense altitute and keep some body funcs going well(ex: balancing ur body etc...don't know much details)
ohh teza nice hearing from you. I planned to write one blog per month. I am kinda of reaching the target :P now i should change to on per week or two per week.
ReplyDeletei wonder how pressure changes because you are in an airtight box and a cylindrical shell. I dont see how pressure gets affected
to maintain cabin pressure the compressors on board the a/c has to do more and more work as the aircraft gains altitude.. and by the way no matter what, the cabin cannot be fully airtight and pressure has to be maintained using these compressors. the designers know what pressure variations the human body can take and hence design the compressor accordingly to achieve the minimum energy requirement. This results in pressure variations which the body experiences when the aircraft gains altitude although it is in the safe region for human passengers.
ReplyDeletethanks adarsh :) thats pretty informative.
ReplyDeleteThere's more to the decompression. The plane has enough power to pressurize the cabin to 1 bar or even much more. But maintaining the cabin at high pressure increases the fatigue loading on the airframe. So, they just barely keep it high enough so that we aren't too uncomfortable.
ReplyDeleteohh ya! thats the best explanation. thanks for enlightening. why dint i think of that :(?
ReplyDeleteThat was a question in HTW. I got it back then. :P
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