You feel the bumps, the shaking — and your body tenses. But turbulence isn’t dangerous. Planes are built to handle far more than what you feel in the cabin. What seems intense from your seat barely registers to us up front. Not because we don’t feel it too — but because we understand it. Turbulence is just air currents moving at different speeds — the same way water ripples in a river. The airplane is simply riding those waves. When you understand what’s really happening, that fear response shut