I always go over them in the SPRING or SUMMER. No reason for me to try it any other time. I couldn't IMAGINE the experience during a good old fashioned winter storm. Yikes!
Yes. Always turbulence going over the Rockies.
On a trip back from Florida had to go over the mountain range to Pa....in a Cargo Plane no less! The noise alone was enough to give you a headache! But the turbulence took me for a ride I won’t ever forget!
Rock and roll can be an understatement. Red-eye LA to NY via Chicago and we went from cruising altitude of about 38K to 19K in what I seem to recall a VERY short amount of time. It was white knuckle all the way down. Flight attendant with the cart was holding on but he was against the ceiling. Overhead compartments flew open and contents “shifted” all over the cabin.
Minor injuries throughout and we were asked to stay in our seats when we landed so medical personnel could board the plane. I recall the pilot coming on the PA right after we leveled out saying he’d never experienced turbulence that bad before (no,I’m not kidding) and he said it was rolling-wave turbulence.
Shook me to my core. I now have to fly medicated (Lorazepam). I double the dose, strap myself in and boom-boom out go the lights. I don’t wanna know nothing about the flight.