Landing was a slow crucible. Each hundred feet of descent added a stone to the weight behind his eardrum. Lights of the city blurred below. The landing gear thunked down, a sound he felt more in his teeth than heard. The final approach: the roar of flaps, the change in engine pitch. He pressed a hot, desperate finger to the tragus of his ear, wiggling it, begging the pressure to equalize.
The woman beside him noticed his grimace. “You okay?” blocked ears from flying
The goal is to manually force the Eustachian tubes to open. Here are the most effective methods: 1. The Valsalva Maneuver Landing was a slow crucible