Originally Posted by
Hotel Tango
out of curiosity, it may be interesting to know if pax on this forum adopt certain positions in their seat for take-off and landing?
I do, but it's partly because I have an old back injury - a broken vertebra which is prone to something called "spondilitus" (in layman's terms "lots of pain"), so I treat it with care.
That's part of it, but the main reason is that I frequently (twice a week, ~43 weeks a year) fly in an Embraer 145 whose oleos are seemingly filled with case-hardened granite and whose most gentle touchdowns can be observed on seismometers over a hundred miles away. So as we cros the airfield boundary I always put my feet flat on the floor and sit with my spine vertical & pressed into the seat.
But that's just because I'm prone to the problem - I wouldn't think anyone uninjured would need to do it.
PDR