Free fall during flight, or minimum G's experienced?

Question

During parts of an airplane's ascent, it feels as if I am in free fall. (More precisely, my vertical acceleration is less than 9.8m/s^2). It's because the vertical speed is decreasing, so what are the minimum and maximum G's I experience during a commercial flight?

I am specifically referring to the initial climb, when the rate of climb decreases from the greatest rate right after takeoff.

Answer 1

Commercial airlines endeavor to maintain passenger comfort.
Unless there are extenuating circumstances...you trip should never exceed 1.5 Pos 'G' and never less than .60-.80 Neg 'G'
Turbulence may give momentary transients above this loading but they are avoided when able. Unforseen manuevering (ie : TCAS alerts) might give loads higher than this as well....but again, its unforseen.

Answer 2

You will never experience anything close to zero g on a commercial airliner, unless in severe turbulence. Otherwise objects like hand luggage and in-flight meals would start floating around the cabin - which would most certainly upset the passengers.........

Answer 3

i'm including on to gintable, because gravity isn't the purely rigidity appearing on you throughout freefall. the different significant rigidity appearing on you is air resistance (the friction of the air on your body.) This money owed for the reduce in conceivable % (terminal velocity.) At terminal velocity, the gravitational acceleration and the air resistance are equivalent. the load you're talking about in W=mg is the load of something at a consistent altitude. the actual definition of weight (easily, the staggering time period is rigidity) is F=ma. that's the total mass and the total acceleration. With a consistent mass, and an acceleration of 0, the rigidity is (duh!) 0. No rigidity, no weight. Weightlessness.

Answer 4

In a commercial airliner, you'll rarely exceed 2Gs positive and about 1/2G negative in normal conditions.