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Is doing anything fast or being happy about anything going smoothly really considered a speedrun now?
Don't get me wrong. If Summoning salt posts a two hour long video about the history and optimization of Delta Airlines flight 545 between LGA and ATL, I'm watching that shit.
New York to Atlanta any% run.
(That's not a very long flight so 54 minutes is actually pretty impressive.)
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.
Last time I tried instant engine shutdown + nosedive + full throttle turn on when taking off, my plane crashed and slid at mach1 on the runway. I don't recommend that strategy.
One simple trick to arrive an hour ahead of schedule!
ATC hates him
In before someone posts the Aspen 20 Speedcheck copypasta
Hacks!
I learned all I needed to know about pilots when I learned about the GUARD frequency
I mean I'm not surprised. You'd be amazed at the stupid shit people think is cool.
Now THIS is what I like seeing in society lol
Did he leave without his passengers?
Can you blame them for wanting to work quietly once in a while?
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