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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Nah, it's a "first time flying and there is a bunch of us and we're so grateful the pilot didn t kill us all" kind of thing.
Was on a flight this summer with some seriously unstable wind that made the landing a bit more impressive than usual and many people clapped. Return landing was smooth as fuck and sure enough, everybody was gangsta, then.

[–] peopleproblems 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah the two times I was on a plane where people clapped it was because of less than great weather (like the runway being in a quarter inch thick ice sheet) and the other because air traffic control fucked up and told the pilot he was clear to land when a 737 was right below us landing already.

To be honest, both times I think I agree clapping was ok.

If you land in fine weather and no near miss, and still clap? That's a red flag