Not Crew, sorry to intrude (andon my first post, hope I'm not breaking too many rules here)
- but reading this made me remember an ear-pressure-story I've been wondering about for years.
I was on a flight with friend who had a cold. On the descend for a stopover, he experienced a lot of pain because of this (strangely enough not while climbing), so on the second leg he asked the friendly crew lady if she had anything available to keep the pain away. She told him not to worry, and when we started descending, she brought 2 plastic cups containing hot wet dabbers and told him to put those cups (with the dabbers) on his ears for the descent. He did, and did not experience any discomfort while descending.
Ever since, I've been wondering: How can this work? I mean, can it work? Or was it just in his mind?
