This was my first wake turb encounter.

Departing MNL Monday night on CO934. Three minutes after wheels up there was a violent, uncommanded roll to port immediately followed by a sharp correction by PF. The 738 was quivering. There was no WX at MNL. It's dry season and no CB. There was only one brief encounter and the rest of the flight was smooth.

If anyone was standing during this event there is no doubt we'd have had an injury. Nobody could have kept their feet and they'd have been pitched into the roof or other pax. Worse if the carts were being pushed down the aisle.

In this case it wasn't too scary because we must have been at least 4,000 feet above ground and it was quite clear what was happening. But it would have been very nasty on short final or if we were only a few seconds off the ground.

On that note, there was as usual some turb inbound to NRT on Saturday but nothing like the nightmare of NW73 a couple of years ago.

Keep those belts tight after departure and before arrival!

RTS