If you're flying soon, you will want to  these dirty little secrets of flying. There are some good helpful dos and don'ts

Nextshark.com recently came out with an article about the Dirty secrets of flying. Here are a few. For the complete list, click on the button bar below.

Why they dim the lights when the plane is landing.
- When a plane is landing at night, they dim the interior lights in case you need to evacuate upon landing... your eyes are already adjusted to the darkness so you'll be able to see better once outside the plane.

The reason you sometimes experience a hard landing.
- When you experience a hard landing in bad weather it wasn't because of a lack of pilot skills but it is in fact intentional. If the runway is covered in water the airplane has to touch down hard in order to puncture the water layer and prevent aqua planing.

A simple trick will give you the best flight ever!
- NO ONE tips flight attendants. If you give your FA a fiver with your first drink you'll probably drink for free the rest of the flight

Engine problem is not a problem
- Most large commercial aircraft can fly with only one engine if needed. If both engines fail, a plane can glide 6 nautical miles for every 5,000 feet. So at 35,000 feet, a plane can glide about 42 miles without power. Its why most accidents happen landing or taking off.

This will change your drastically change how you eat on a plane.
- Tray tables are almost never cleaned or sanitized. Don't eat food that has touched them!

Never drink the coffee or tea
- The drinking water, that used for making coffee, tea, ect., should NEVER be consumed. The holding tanks in these sometimes 60 year old planes are never cleaned. They have accumulated so much greenish grime on the walls that in some places it can be inches thick.
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