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by sokoloff 988 days ago
> So going from +30 feet to -30 feet in a minute is just an adjustment of only about 5 degrees. You'd barely feel it, even walking down the isle.

You would pretty obviously feel a change in pitch of 5° walking down the aisle.

You mixed feet per second and feet per minute. 60 feet of change across 777 feet of run is about 4.5° (inverse sin(60/777)), such as you'd experience if the change was in 1 second instead of in 1 minute.

Calculating 60' change in 777*60 feet, inverse sin (60/(777*60)) is 0.07°, which is why you don't feel that change in inclination of the aisle.