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Originally Posted by JA Yawd Bwoy  I have heard this from fellow people as well, but is it just me (and them) or whenever you happen to sit behind the wing of an airliner/plane you experience far more G-Forces than if you sit infront of the wing or close to the cockpit? It is something that I have experimented with and I find it true all the time. |
I'm hesitant to rely on superficial impressions, because you'd have to be in both places at once to fairly compare the forces. If you're sitting in the rear, how do you know what you would have felt had you been up front?
That said, if you're talking about responses to turbulence, the person in the rear may experience some rotational forces as the airplane pivots nose down in response to updrafts that would tend to magnify the g-forces. The reverse for those sitting up front. How significant? Dunno.
And there may be some aeroelasticity issues, depending on how much fuselage is behind the wing compared to in front.