Travel Hack for People Who Hate Turbulence Is the Ultimate Game-Changer
Few things can ruin a flight faster for anxious passengers quite like turbulence can. Even the most seasoned, even-headed flyer can be sent reaching for their sick bag after getting shaken up in a bad bout of turbulence. Although turbulence is rarely a significant danger to the airplane itself, most travelers are keen on avoiding it whenever possible!
There's no surefire trick to avoiding turbulence 100% of the time, but there are ways to help quell your fears about it. On November 5, luxury traveler Nicole Sunderland shared her uber-helpful hack for dealing with turbulence!
Even as a full-time professional traveler, @nicolemsunderland (aka "Nicki") confesses that she still gets nervous when flying. Traveling the world may be wonderful, but air travel can be taxing and anxiety-inducing even for experienced flyers. Unfortunately, since she flies so frequently, Nicki has to frequently contend with turbulence! Her trick for easing her anxiety? A helpful website call Turbli.
Turbli is a turbulence tracking website that can generate custom forecasts for your upcoming flight up to 36 hours in advance. You just need to input your departure and arrival airport, along with your departure date, and it'll populate all flights that fit those parameters. You pick yours out of the list, and it'll project your turbulence forecast- including the likely peaks and valleys of turbulence throughout each hour of the flight. It also dictates windspeeds, potential storms along the flight path, and predicted conditions for takeoff and landing.
This can help bring a lot of peace of mind to nervous flyers who want to know what to expect. Enduring turbulence is easier when you can predict when it'll start- and when the end is in sight!
If you're trying to minimize your likelihood of encountering turbulence entirely before you even book, though... well, that's trickier, as turbulence forecasts aren't accurate more than a couple of days out. However, Turbli also includes international turbulence maps, as well as historic data for airports with the least and most instances of turbulence, so you can try to build your air travel plans based on that information.
Peace of mind is key when enduring turbulence. As long as you're securely buckled in, turbulence isn't likely to be dangerous, but it can be really scary when you're flying through it. Forecast websites like Turbli can eliminate a lot of that dread and uncertainty so flyers can alleviate their anxiety and approach their next trip ready for anything that comes their way!
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