[4K] Flying Through Thunderstorm / Takeoff St. Louis Southwest 737-800 N8575Z STL-TUL *Description

Here's the time stamps with the best flashes of lightning since this video is somewhat long:
- 1:23
- 2:45
- 4:04
- 4:25
- 5:01
- 5:29
- 6:02 Medium turbulence and more rain
- 6:18

[meckster]

I've enjoyed seeing everyone's view on if they'd enjoy this flight or not. For the record, I did feel safe and quite enjoyed the way we danced around the (quite obvious) worst zones. I can only imagine how much fun the pilots were having up front, really working the machine as an extension of their body and keeping themselves engaged with the environment and live weather. Would you enjoy this super-sized bush flying, or would you be looking forward to simply making it to point B?

[nextfriiday]

The best message I’ve ever heard from a pilot to his passengers before a stormy take-off was “We can handle it up here, if you can handle it back there”. 😮

[officialdaviiid]

That turbulence from the storm scared me through the phone 💀

[rexx]

My heart would've been pounding out of my chest. If it weren't for turbulence I could really enjoy flying.

[TheFlyingVLOG]

Gotta love the turbulence when you watch it on video. Just not when your sitting in it haha!

[cesaralexis]

You made it through so that tells me that flying is very safe.

[incubus_the_man]

I had a thunderstorm takeoff flying out of Miami once. It was kind of scary because it was a night flight. The plane had electrical issues prior to takeoff which delayed us 45 minutes. The small ERJ felt like it was struggling to climb through the stormy air, gently rocking on the way up. All I could see was dark night sky and sideways rain until we got to altitude. The rest of the flight was uneventful.

[StormChaserMaci.]

These are really good pilots. They were navigating around the worst of that storm using radar.

[comehitherprods]

Nicely executed departure, only a few bumps, and a nice light show!
Great job capturing it👍

[imjuslooking]

This was a decent thunderstorm, and some good turbulence as well. Of course, I"m from CA and 1-2 flashes per minute counts as a good storm for us. Nice video!

[FLAviation]

5:56 my god! Been a flight simmer for too long and I've never realized how wild this powerful invention looks like while breaking through all of these heavy clouds and showers..this is crazy!

[robertwattsjr]

I m never ceased to be amazed by how these machines just attack the sky and soar ..I love fying

[jackfairclough]

Wow thats some incredible footage! - I honestly thought that the thumbnail was a little clickbait but how wrong was I ?! - Great capture, amazing footage :O

[BwInNewJersey]

That opening clip of the plane at the gate is fantastic quality

[scottstrang]

I just love aviation. At my age it’s too late to learn to fly. I love these spaceships that operate within the atmosphere.

[UAL]

That looks like it was on hell of a storm. Great job capturing the lightning.

[jguneyli-jbjv]

Past 50 years I flew through hurricanes, typhoons and thunderstorms so many times. It is scary during the flight and big relief when you land. Now, I check the weather report and forecast before a flight.

[Tinatu]

Ive been on a plane way smaller than this during a storm, and despite the scary looks outside it wasn’t bumpy really….I trust the pilots .

[nicoroz]

The thunderstorm was not flown through, it was circumnavigated… you should never fly through one intentionally or you’ll get structural damage at best.

[emanuel]

I was on a flight that flew through a heavy thunderstorm much worse than this. There where multiple flashes every second, lots of rain and pretty heavy turbulence. When the aircraft had got through the clouds the turbulence stopped and you could see big flaschclouds on distance from above. And that was pretty cool. Wish I had filmed that.