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Originally Posted by mineistaken
Dude, plane was losing altitude at the speed of highest to ground in 8 minutes. That is the speed which you feel as a passenger.
So you feel the non stopping descent for the whole 8 minutes!
Change of altitude happens, as you say, but it does not happen at this rate. Neither in speed of descent, nor in time of how long it continues at once...
People would start getting cold sweat and increased heart beat after just 1 minute of non stop descent like that!
In 2nd minute they would start shitting their pants!
So the only thing to calm them down would be for cabbin crew to "explain" something.
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read it up - 4000 fpm descent are not common but also not unusual (slam dunk approach)
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Passenger comfort isn't directly correlated to descent rate. Many pax will claim their ears popped more, but in reality the cabin pressure change is the same regardless of the descent rate. Things the pax are sensitive to that do occur are accelerations, and how fast the airplane is pitched into the descent will have a large impact on how the descent rate is perceived in the cabin (This is the same reason a vertical deviation of 50 feet in turbulence makes passengers think they dropped 1000 ft, it is all in the acceleration). Deck angle may also play a role in passenger perception.
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you're making assumptions about something you don't know anything about