A couple of people had told me that they find small planes less scary and "smooth." I don't know how their experiences are so different. It plunged viscerally every time it hit a cloud, which was often enough, being as it was in the sky and all that. The landing was harrowing: it felt like going down a stairway on a pogo stick, and because I could see out of the front window I couldn't not look. And what I saw was the plane seeming to veer wildly back and forth to the extent that I thought hitting the runway would be a matter of chance and not a very good one at that. In the last moments before landing it felt as though we were lurching slowly over buildings that we might as easily clip. This is surely not what happened, but just as surely, it is how it appeared to me at the time.