Reply To: Why do people get nervous when they fly?

Unless you are going downwind in a boat, the waves are very dangerous to a boat if the wave is taller than the boat is long. if a boat tries to climb a wave that is too big it will slide to the side, and go “beam-to” flip over sideways by the wave hitting it broadside, and instantly lose ship to shore communications. the only similarity I can see between planes and boats is if you are going downwind, with the storm, and you have to go faster than the waves, so you are not swamped a plane needs to go faster than the wind to keep up airspeed so it won’t stall