New York to Atlanta any% run.
(That’s not a very long flight so 54 minutes is actually pretty impressive.)
Boeing is doing the low% speedrun where you try to get to your destination with the least aircraft parts.
At this point arriving at the airport is optional.
Stretch goal: Arrive before takeoff.
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Journey before destination
Happens everyday thanks to time zones.
Do they allow clipping? Or is that a different category?
What’s clipping?
in speed running computer games clipping is normally clipping out of the defined boundaries of the environment into areas that the developers did not intend.
Thanks for the explanation, you were quicker than me with a response.
Not since that failed attempt.
Fair haha.
Ah I’ve always wanted to fly to Backrooms Airport
Did he leave without his passengers?
Can you blame them for wanting to work quietly once in a while?
You spend a lot of time climbing and descending plus the higher you are, the more distance you cover traveling to any location. The trick is to fly as close as possible to the ground.
Air is denser the lower you are in the atmosphere so a plane’s cruise speed is actually a lot lower at 1000 feet than at 30,000 feet.
So the optimal altitude to climb to and fly at most of the flight for shortest possible flight time depends on distance (since it’s a balance between climb time, descent time and speed at the cruise altitude) as well as on the direction of the wind at the cruise altitude since a tail wind will actually help getting there faster (so a choice of a lower cruise altitude might yield a better time because the wind is in the right direction there even though the air is a bit denser lower down).
This is of course all theoretical since commercial planes don’t get much choice in terms of the cruise altitude for their flight.
Ooooh, so that’s why I saw a plane doing janky backwards jumps before being flung off into the sky.
Hey guys desinc here, today I’m gonna show you some tricks and glitches in real life
click uh, ladies and gentlemen this is your Captain speaking. Wha. Hoo hoo. Yahoooo! Yahoo! Yah! Yayayayaya! click
(Edit: wrong sound)
subjects everyone to 15g force.
I mean it might make the flight less boring, since everyone just passes out.
Down with the tailwind?
Whoops, I had the wrong sound Mario. Fixed.
Alright everyone its parachutes today, ive got a bet going.
Hacks!
One simple trick to arrive an hour ahead of schedule!
ATC hates him
I learned all I needed to know about pilots when I learned about the GUARD frequency
Southwest Airlines pays their pilots a bonus for every minute they block in early.
Guess who has a reputation for bugging ATC for shortcuts and taxiing really fast.
Aha, I knew it! Flight attendants get paid per ‘flight’ hour and the pilots get bonuses to reduce the amount of time the attendants are paid for. That’s fucked up
Pay is usually per flight hour, but also paid on a block-or-better basis. The minimum pay for completing a leg is the scheduled time, but if there are delays, then actual time from parking brake to parking brake is paid
Oh, that’s better than I assumed
parking brake
This a fwd model? Get me some McDonald’s trays, I’m gonna show atc a cool trick
Pilots are going to radio in asking for more ice on the runways.
Spirit?
I only got 3 hours of sleep, someone help me out, what’s the joke here?
This commercial airline pilot is keeping track of their biggest time saved on a trip. The caption is comparing it to speedrunning a videogame, which is funny cause speedrunners usually do everything they can to save time but if you did that as a pilot it would probably be pretty unsafe
A TOS shows that if you do an out of bounds glitch you can trigger the loading zone under ground because they stretch to the bottom of the sky box.
Weren’t airlines purposefully inflating trip times because of the Biden administration’s rule changes on trip refunds?
