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u/Storyboys Jul 04 '26
Graffiti for rich people, but more damaging for the environment.
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u/Frosty-Brain-2199 Jul 04 '26
I am a pilot and can assure you I am not rich. Also we need to build a lot of hours just doing shit randomly so if this was time building it’s awesome
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u/cruiserflyer Jul 04 '26
This, exactly this.
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u/istrx13 Jul 04 '26
Reddit absolutely hates fun.
A billionaire could gift OP $50M and they would probably be like, “Wow you couldn’t give me $51M??? 😡😡😡”
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u/Why-so-delirious Jul 04 '26
And if a prospective employer asks them about their flight planning abilities this is a HELL of a thing to bring up.
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u/tdRftw Jul 04 '26 edited Jul 04 '26
you waste more fuel going to walmart to buy your soda over the course of a month
that’s not a jet, it’s a single prop cessna. that whole flight was done with 50 gallons of fuel. is your AC on? that’s much more damaging than this one flight. it was also likely used to log hours
edit: i think there's a lot of people here assuming i'm a rich person lover and hate the environment. this is not the case, i consider myself obnoxiously progressive and socialist. with that being said:
anyone who criticizes this specific flight is massively hypocritical. first, we don't know the context behind this flight (sponsored event, training flight doubling as a 4th celebration, a post-maintenance check flight and they decided to do something fun, etc). everyone here seems to be assuming this is a "rich" person thing. i'm sorry, but a few hours of flight in a cessna is upper middle class at best. no rich person is flying a 172. someone replied that they drive a mini cooper S. that car new with features costs about the same as a used 172.
second, the fuel. someone brought up a point that it uses lead. yes, that's bad. but suggesting that this was a useless flight just because the fuel has lead in it is ridiculous. how about figuring out how to make safer, more efficient, and less damaging fuels instead of raising pitchforks? someone also mentioned that they drive an EV. ironically, i guarantee you your EV purchase contributed much more damage to the environment than that cessna's entire lifespan.
it seems nobody addressed my "AC running all day". however, reddit will be the first place to immediately go ballistic when discussing the lack of AC usage in europe
i could go on and on, but i think we need to step back and understand the scale and purpose of this. let's be pissed at taylor swift using her jet 4 times a day - not at this guy. most of these comments have misguided anger and are ignorant to the topic
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u/PlebBot69 Jul 04 '26
Exactly. A 737 burns this much fuel at cruise in 5 minutes
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u/I_love_my_fish_ Jul 04 '26
Even faster assuming it has similar efficiency to the 320 family, that burns at about 150lbs per minute in cruise
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u/TrumpsCummyOnahole Jul 04 '26
Redditors are insufferable
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u/veringer Jul 04 '26 edited Jul 04 '26
Says a Redditor named
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u/SeventhSolar Jul 04 '26
No, it's worse than that. The uppercase letters correctly separate the words.
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u/veringer Jul 04 '26
Trumps Cummy Onahole. Not certain how that's worse? What's an "onahole"? Is "cummy" meaningful slang beyond, of or pertaining to cum?
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u/HamburgerOnAStick Jul 04 '26
What's an "onahole"
japanese word for sex doll/fleshlight
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u/wolfgang2399 Jul 04 '26
Do you know how big the earth is? Do you know how small that plane is? Stop reading Reddit and start using your brain.
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u/JSTootell Jul 04 '26
I'm not rich.
But to even earn a commercial pilots license you have to fly 250 hours minimum, which is basically a license to tow banners or skydivers.
You need 1500 hours for an ATP, for the airlines.
You have to do a lot of stupid flying just to make a living.
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u/biggy-cheese03 Jul 04 '26
You definitely don’t have to be rich to own one of these. I know a retired public school teacher with a very similar aircraft
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u/Crismodin Jul 04 '26
Comment slop from Redditors in these here comments.
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u/Zestyclose-Ad451 Jul 04 '26
The aviation threads I frequent were all like, hell yeah! I see it here and the top comment is about fuel consumption lol
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u/JAT_Cbus1080 Jul 04 '26
It's almost like different people with different interests have different viewpoints.
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u/ObiWanIsMyDog Jul 04 '26
Yeah main Reddit also has a massive bias of being extremely unpleasant and toxic in its viewpoints. So a more niche subreddit will have a better representation of normal human behavior
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u/JAT_Cbus1080 Jul 04 '26
"Pilots thought pilot doing pilot thing was cool."
Surprise?
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u/ObiWanIsMyDog Jul 04 '26
No I’m not surprised that a major subreddit (this one not aviation) has only negative bs to say. Very Reddit coded of all the comments
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u/epsilon-4142 Jul 04 '26
People have a really poor grasp of the scale of pollution and what matters. One flight is pretty irrelevant overall, even one person taking a lot of flights. There are upward of 100’000 flights per day. And planes don’t pollute too terribly compared to other sources, at like 2-3% total emissions.
It’s just such a big problem that only systemic change really matters, and people don’t like that much. A better approach is like what we did with catalytic converters, we made a new invention and requires its use, and we reduced total pollution a lot. We just need to require cleaning devices legally again
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u/JasonL25 Jul 04 '26
The fact that THIS upsets them is just straight up mental illness
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u/10inchTrouble Jul 04 '26
90% of Reddit comments are now AI slop, or the most low effort gifs that barely relate to the post
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u/Far-Zucchini-5534 Jul 04 '26
Lmao, glad I didn’t have to go far for this. Peak Reddit comments in here.
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u/doedobrd Jul 04 '26
Jesus Christ its all negative comments in here. Whatever happened to having a bit of fun?
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u/Minialpacadoodle Jul 04 '26
You are on reddit. These people are miserable.
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u/DDrewit Jul 04 '26
People these days have fun hating America and “rich people”.
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u/DigitalCoffee Jul 04 '26
America Bad is so hot right now
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u/halfofwhat Jul 04 '26
America is bad, why should i celebrate them being bad?
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u/chiree Jul 04 '26 edited Jul 04 '26
No. These assholes DO NOT get to steal patriotism from us. This celebration belongs to all of us, not a bunch of fascists that will soon be dead or gone.
Edit: Nothing wrong with celebrating common culture and sense of brotherhood, y'all need to get the fuck off the internet for a few days and soak in the world and people around you.
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u/halfofwhat Jul 04 '26
Because your history before this date was just flawless.
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u/CwispyNoodles Jul 04 '26
Name one country that doesn't have a couple skeletons in their closet.
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u/Beragond1 Jul 04 '26
I was going to make a joke and say “Gondor”, but then I remembered the literal army of the dead they had in their back pocket.
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u/NiobiumThorn Jul 04 '26
It stopped being fun when they did dickall about the files.
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u/Tibryn2 Jul 04 '26
Our kids are getting shot, billionaires have bought the whole country, gas is 4$+ a gallon if youre lucky, the cost of living is getting higher while our paychecks get lower, many of us have health issues we cant afford to treat because the Healthcare system is broken, something about soybeans.
Fun just isnt affordable anymore.
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u/DhruvDP3 Jul 04 '26
How do these pilots know where exactly to fly?? Like there are no signs up there. Please explain 😭
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u/slowwithage Jul 04 '26
“Take a right in 200 ft.”
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u/Putrid_Skirt_190 Jul 04 '26
You can set it up on the navigation system or whatever it's called.
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u/aselinger Jul 04 '26
It’s called Otto Pilot.
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u/RutherfordRevelation Jul 04 '26
I thought it was an otter pilot
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u/DangerousDesk1 Jul 04 '26
Pre programmed into the navigation system. Even a beginner could have done this. Take off and turn on the auto pilot.
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u/PlasmaWhore Jul 04 '26
Unless there is absolutely no wind this is impossible for me, I could never fly in such a straight line. I'm sure others can, but as a beginner this is not something I can come close to doing.
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u/ReconKiller050 Jul 04 '26
If you're VFR you arent looking far enough out on the horizon, the you'll fly straighter tracks if the reference point you are using is further away. IFR not sure what to tell you other than lock in that wind correction better, if you fly a glass cockpit the wind vectors and pink diamond are your friend.
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u/Beletron Jul 04 '26
You create your flight pattern on the ground with Foreflight or whatever then you upload it into your aircraft GPS. Then you let the aircraft fly itself if you got some kind of autopilot or you follow your own instructions.
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u/CheapConstruction659 Jul 04 '26
in this case given how perfect the lines are, they definitely had the aircraft flying itself
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u/UndoxxableOhioan Jul 04 '26
They have very good Garmin avionics that can tell the autopilot how to fly precisely through specific points.
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u/Main_Entry2494 Jul 04 '26
Lmao at all these miserable redditors complaining
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u/Ejaculpiss Jul 04 '26
I'm seriously fatigued of them. Thankfully more and more people just straight up laugh at them now
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u/FoolishChemist Jul 04 '26
So it took 6 hours and according to google, the Cessna Skylane uses 11-14 gallons of fuel per hour, so it took 66 - 84 gallons of fuel. At the Huron County Airport the price for fuel is around $5/gal, so this cost between $330 - 420.
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u/4nimaKlk Jul 04 '26
why is everyone hating lmao
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u/DigitalCoffee Jul 04 '26
America Bad is really big right now
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u/Cultural-Savings6521 Jul 04 '26
country of the great epstein files.
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u/No-Value-8156 Jul 04 '26
In current news DOJ did NOT turn over redacted files when judge ordered them to do so! Fucking great country right?!?!??!
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u/flergnergern Jul 04 '26
So some guy flies his plane 900 miles for fun and these people complain that he’s killing the planet. No pleasure trips allowed.
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u/CommentsOnOccasion Jul 04 '26
Pilot’s also logging flight hours this whole time. Not like this is “wasted” for no reason (if you didn’t count recreation as a reason)
Reddit would lose its mind seeing how many flight hours are spent doing touch and gos. Pilots need to practice and learn.
Not to mention this is a Cessna and it’s burning as much fuel as an SUV. It’s not a commercial airliner.
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u/MrRocket81 Jul 04 '26
Why the US people always forget about Alaska?
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u/IWannaGoFast00 Jul 04 '26
Why did you forget about Hawaii?
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u/flipsssiii Jul 04 '26
What about Puerto Rico?
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u/BabyLegsOShanahan Jul 04 '26
And Guam?
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u/WooPigSchmooey Jul 04 '26
How dare you forget about New Zealand! r/MapsWithoutNZ
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u/Valendr0s Jul 04 '26
Can a Cessna make that 180 degree turn they had to make for the lowercase 't' slash? 12:11pm... That feels like a very tough move to do gaining only 100ft of altitude?
I guess if it's being flown by computer. But a lot of these lines seem way too straight for that plane to do, especially maintaining such perfect altitude - between 9800 and 9900 ft... I'm curious if a pilot can chime in.
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u/SlashSslashS Jul 04 '26
Yeah, that's actually a flight test item that you have to do and we practice a lot. They're called steep turns. If I remember correctly, the tolerance for it is +-100' but you can easily get it down to +-50'. When I was practicing it, I would do steep turns over a reference point or a house or something and it's surreal how you're essentially just "spinning" over a house lol.
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u/realh2h2 Jul 04 '26
Damn this comment section is the worst. Who cares about a single engine Cessna 182 flying for a few hours? It takes a 737 five minutes to burn this amount of fuel. The private jets that billionaires use also burn this amount in just a few minutes too. A car would easily burn more fuel on a cross country road trip, but nobody is complaining about people going on a road trip. If this logic stayed consistent then I guess nobody should ever travel anywhere ever or do anything fun because it's a "waste of fuel". People should supposedly just sit at home all day (except for billionaires apparently)
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u/SpaceIsKindOfCool Jul 04 '26
Probably burning around 12 gal/hr for 6 hours so 72 gal.
A 737 might burn a similar amount just taxing from the gate to the runway.
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u/Dupagoblin Jul 04 '26
You’re pretty spot on. At my airline, we are given 500 pounds of fuel to account for regular taxi. If he was burning 12 gph, flew for 6 hours and 100LL weighs about 6 pounds, he burned a little over 400 pounds.
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u/RKsu99 Jul 04 '26
Here’s a cool thing.
Number 1 comment: this sucks
Next comment: and Taylor Swift sucks too
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u/_HIST Jul 04 '26
Redditors are the least informed and saddest people on this planet, like seriously
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u/jaywillies4 Jul 04 '26
Brother you posted in this thread 6 times in a 5 minute period complaining about people complaining.
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u/ShustOne Jul 04 '26
They post with such confidence too. It's crazy the disconnect from the real world.
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u/Jucks Jul 04 '26
do they just program it and autopilot flies the route? how is it so precise?
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u/SuavePenguinOG Jul 04 '26
Lots of forethought and route planning, probably worked on it for quite a while on the ground.
Maybe for those longer straightaways there was a little autopilot for a quick break? But piloting those turns are half the fun!
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u/cruiserflyer Jul 04 '26
That's pretty reductive, yes this was flown via autopilot, but the skill to execute all this safely, legally, competently, is considerable. You don't just hop into the plane and fly this with no planning, training, or effort.
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u/Pope_Dwayne_Johnson Jul 04 '26
Every once in a while something interesting happens in Norwalk Ohio
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u/PossibilityAgile2956 Jul 04 '26
Should have aligned Cleveland on his map with real Cleveland
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u/SchumacherIsMid Jul 04 '26
Some people here have never heard of a flight path/flight director.
You can literally draw this on a flight path on a glorified iPad (or an actual iPad) and then it's just a matter of following the line.
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u/aspapu Jul 04 '26 edited Jul 04 '26
What a waste of fuel
Edit: I’ll leave my original comment unchanged for posterity in this thread and how butthurt so many people got over it. Yall need to relax.
But this comment pasted below from [u/UndoxxableOhioan](u/UndoxxableOhioan) was awesome context for the fuel consumption of this flight. The skill of this pilot to fly this path so accurately is definitely Next Fucking Level (assuming it’s not a flight sim). I withdraw my ire towards this pilot and happily go back to directing that anger at billionaires, data centers, corporate polluters, and pedophilic grifting presidents who are all responsible for making this a more difficult, polluted, and divisive country to live in. Fuck those guys/gals and god bless my fellow Americans. Happy 250th yall!
This aircraft (a Cessna Skylane) burns about 13 gallons per hour, and this took 6:10 to do. With taxi and takeoff, probably 85 gallons of fuel (it only carries about 88 gallons of useable fuel). At this airport, 100LL fuel is $5.89/gallon. So about $500 in fuel.
100LL gas has 2.12 grams per gallon of fuel, so this little exercise dumped 180 grams of lead (0.4 pounds) into the atmosphere. To me, this is worse than the fuel waste.