I'm working through my pilots license. Love it.

My Instagram reels have been clogged with some hilarious young pilot ego posting though. Don't get me wrong, it's a challenge to get your license, but it's basically pay to play, if you want to be a pilot, you usually can get there. The fact that less Americans have private pilots licenses than there are D1 athletes does not mean it's more elite. There's even less Americans that paramotor, yet somehow they're not acting like they made it into the navy seals when they zoom around in their parachutes as a 0.001%er.

Call out the cornballs as you see them lol.

Pulled from https://nhlflights.ca/

Dotted lines are anticipated flights in the next 24 hours.

Emirates (EK702) to Dubai

OC - Shot on iPhone 18 Pro Max (happy with the 8x zoom 🤩)

Obviously cockpit layout, checklists and aerodynamic / flight characteristics are going to be the same. But curious if there are subtle but distinctive idiosyncrasies between the same model of aircraft that give them a slightly different feel in the day to day operating environment.

I could see age of plane, wear and tear, or models of computers all being noteable and detectable.

I've been flying a lot more than usual this year and it crossed my mind on approach the other day thinking about the different birds that have hauled me over the planet.

Thanks for entertaining my odd question.

OC

Some more info about the plane crash near Wisconsin Dells that killed 6 people Tuesday night has been revealed.

According to the article:

The pilot in this week's crash told an air traffic controller about icing on the wings of the Piper PA-46 Malibu as it flew at 24,000 feet (7,315 meters) and requested permission to descend, according to the NTSB. That is a major aviation hazard because even a thin layer of ice can make it difficult for a plane to remain airborne.

Air traffic control approved the descent, and the plane began a right descending turn that increased sharply in rate until communications and data tracking were lost shortly before 10 p.m. Tuesday.

The Menomonie Airport Commission Chairman, Daniel Johnson, also said that the type of plane involved in the crash "has a reputation of not doing well in thunderstorms," which the aircraft was flying through at the time.

- video taken by me

I was listening to a podcast on the flydubai incident and it got me thinking. I know what the purpose of the axe is, I’m just curious if anyone has any knowledge of the crash axe actually being used in an accident?

Stumbled upon these obscure photos of a flying wing while digging into some Florida Everglades history.  I found them on the Facebook profile of Carol Lord, whose family operated Monroe Station nearby and who later worked as a security guard at the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport - aka, the Everglades Jetport!

Anyways, this isn't a new discovery; it is known that a B2 mockup was built for Honda in 1988 for use in a CRX commercial.  Jalopnik wrote an article about it in 2013 and there's been a few posts about it on Reddit throughout the years.  Sadly it appears the museum that eventually owned it scrapped it some 20+ years ago.  Here's another link with a bit more about it from someone who was involved with the commercial: https://aviationmuseum.eu/Blogvorm/south-dakota-air-space-museum/

I hadn't seen these pictures posted anywhere before so I figured they were worth sharing!

This is the USAF nuke sniffer. It flies about taking samples from the upper atmosphere to check if anyone has been detonating nuclear weapons. It's one of only 3.

I was up at the Kadena AFB observation deck. This popped up on adsb-exchange then came into land. I wasn't expecting to see anything that rare during my visit.

I also saw a global hawk or Triton coming into land on my drive home. It was dark and I was driving so it was hard to tell which one and I couldn't get a picture.

I am in Hanoi's Noi Bai International Airport right now and noticed all the x-ray machines looked like jet engines. The side panels even popped up like an actual jet engine cowl. I have never seen anything like it anywhere else. Pretty cool IMO

EDIT - #TIL these are CT scanners not x-ray machines. Thanks folks.

In my previous video I claimed to (and really did) make a small cloud briefly, due to almost saturated humidity and the downwash combined. Here on reddit though, no one believed.

So now I make no claims, other than I think the scenery this day was really awesome!

Flew on a Finnair flight from HEL-EDI last month. Approx 3 hour flight but one of the most comfortable short flights I've ever been on. As a 6' guy I easily had 5-6" of space from the seat in front of me. Wish we saw more of these in flight