> I though that, too. I've been on a Cessna (172? I'm not sure) ride with a woman who couldn't hold her lunch, we were both sitting in the back seat, it was fun (Especially when we started circling to take the next picture, and my dad told her to 'Take a deep breath of fresh air' when he'd open the window to shoot... And we were over a paper plant. Stink. That's when the pilot banked the wing... Anyhow.)
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> Well, I was on a 757, inbound at Orlando. We were approaching, everybody strapped in, trays up, laptop off, and the engines started pumping up, the plane went up and down, there was a bump... Peoples screamed... It was kinda scary.

I think pilots call that a carrier landing. Many commercial pilots are old Navy pilots who suvived a number of landings on aircraft carriers. Since the carrier deck is rather small, as landing fields go, and since it tends to pitch and roll a little, it's an good idea to plant that thing firmly on the deck and make it stay there until the arresting gear brings it to a stop. Old habits die hard and sometimes in gusty crosswinds they do it the way the Navy taught them. Not to worry. Modern jet planes can take a beating and still hold together. The guy who designed that landing gear knew there were old Navy pilots out there.
Howard