If aircraft cabins are supposedly pressurised, why do my ears still "pop" when climbing and descending?

Answer 1

As the airplane climbs to its cruising altitude, the cabin pressure is decreasing gradually. So that creates a differential pressure between any airs trapped in your body and those of the cabin. If you are fit and healthy, without any cold symptoms, you may not feel the change of air pressure during the take off and climb because the air leaks out very slowly through the Eustachian tube that connects your middle ear to your mouth and nose.

Answer 2

In the airplane the air is controlled as if you are on a 2000 meter high altitude, that's why your breathing is also faster, and the food has no taste what so ever, and when climbing or asscending, if you have a cold or a cold comming up your sinusses can't keep up with the speed rate of the descend/climb

Answer 3

It all depends. Not everybody's ears pop. Could be that it;s climbing/descending too fast, pressurization isn't equal. ALso, the cabin might not be pressured to equal out the pressure outside. There's numerous explinations.

Answer 4

Because stupid american engineering can't figure out how to pressurize in a finely-tuned manner. So the cabins are over/under pressurized. The pressurizer is either on or off. Theres no analog controls for it. It's fuktarded.

Answer 5

Well it's obvious that they are or you would be dead after a flight from s.f. to london at 39000 ft. I think our ears still "pop" because the pressurization system may not respond at the same speed as ascent/descent.

Answer 6

Because they are pressurized to the equivalent of about 6000 feet (depending on which airline).