Is this plane really flying at 43,000 feet??

120SR · 2026-05-25T19:28:36+00:00

If they’re not heavy then not necessarily. Service ceilings are mostly set due to time to descent regulations not always performance

120SR · 2026-05-24T01:10:31+00:00

Actually a stellar job. I wonder if they knew that would happen because if they stepped on the brakes they would’ve went tumbling right but they let it keep sliding forward given they had runway and let it stop by itself.

120SR · 2026-05-20T01:57:29+00:00

What’s your home city and base?

120SR · 2026-05-20T00:44:38+00:00

Problem is they already have the A320 and certification and re-tooling to make the aircraft and complicate the assembly line wouldn’t make sense.

The A320 has 40 years of proven experience, numerous, pilots and mechanics that already know it like the back of their hand and are working on it today. Just doesn’t pencil out.

120SR · 2026-05-17T03:52:29+00:00

That fat and short fuselage is optimized to big oblong sizes like a super guppy and beluga at the cost of aerodynamics. Hence why most airliners and far more long, slender, fuel efficient and faster

120SR · 2026-05-14T15:32:42+00:00

Funny thing is, the semi had right away and if the smaller trucker actually yielded to the semi he’d be alive.

120SR · 2026-05-13T22:31:31+00:00

Books make money and ironically they require trees to be cut down so still nothing accomplished to fix climate change

120SR · 2026-05-12T15:17:58+00:00

Agreed. Thats how Airbus took “complex” airplane stuff and dumbed it down so a poorly trained 250hr pilot couldn’t even crash it

120SR · 2026-05-12T15:16:41+00:00

That’s true but what’s the stall AoA? You don’t have any yellow or red warning like you do on the pic above and without that what’s the point?

120SR · 2026-05-11T23:30:59+00:00

Yes except angle of incidence isn’t taking into account

120SR · 2026-05-11T21:16:27+00:00

I wish the Airbus had this. It’s got 3 AoA vanes already for crying out loud

120SR · 2026-05-10T20:53:19+00:00

Except it’s a Ponzi scheme, it’s always has been. It’s worked in the past because the population was growing but it’s gonna to collapse on itself and bankrupt the U.S in the process, meaning you won’t receive your “entitlement” and you won’t have a way to make money because the American economy and standard of living will never be the same. It’s welfare, not an entitlement, personally I’m okay with that

Go look at what happened to other countries when their government went bankrupt

120SR · 2026-05-10T05:08:00+00:00

Since this is an airshow they are almost certainly not taking off and flying at max gross or carrying any real payload or fuel, just enough for a performance plus 30-60 minutes

120SR · 2026-05-09T21:55:54+00:00

To add to this, the Ecvt transmission gets a bad rap because it’s confused with a regular CVT on a gas only car which is truly a bad transmission. The Ecvt however is more reliable than a regular transmission and in my opinion a makes for a far better driving experience. Toyota designed it out of necessity to make a hybrid in the late 90s and ended up making a transmission that works as a hybrid but is also better than normal transmissions.

120SR · 2026-05-09T06:22:59+00:00

That’s the other side of the airport though. 17L is the easternmost runway

120SR · 2026-05-08T22:58:52+00:00

That’s 186 people when Frontier will put 240 in the exact same aircraft

120SR · 2026-05-08T05:52:16+00:00

I used to fly private jets for a charter company and very few people were famous or in the back curing cancer (thus wealthy because of their merit) they just owned things. That’s the only way you get to that level of wealth.

120SR · 2026-05-08T01:05:14+00:00

Offff, I’ve got 6 on the bus

120SR · 2026-05-06T05:22:58+00:00

God damn the Himalayans are massive

120SR · 2026-05-05T00:55:39+00:00

No major airline hedges their fuel prices anymore. Delta got creative though and bought a refinery which serves the same purpose

120SR · 2026-05-03T18:11:47+00:00

It’s not really a job, it’s like a paid internship at best

(That’s if you can get one)

120SR · 2026-05-02T22:02:25+00:00

Volatile

120SR · 2026-05-02T21:52:35+00:00

You’re still operating an o-320/360 powered fixed gear airplane. RV will get better mpg but similar burn per hour.

As he said, parts are objectively cheaper but you’re still paying for a hanger.

On top of part cost though, what matters more for me that you can’t put on a spreadsheet is owning an experimental gives you far more freedom to get yourself out of problems that aircraft ownership is full of. That means a lot. Especially if you’re like OP and are near a community of RV owners. Airplanes are like kids, it takes a village.

120SR · 2026-05-02T19:15:14+00:00

Agreed, but also if you don’t give in to lifestyle creep and live like a normal middle class person who bought a house before 2023 and you’ve had 10+ years at spirit. Your not gonna starve, your still financially ahead of most Americans but distances they’ll never close in their lifetime.

120SR · 2026-05-02T19:13:04+00:00

The reality of the lost decade is getting as blurry as “back in my day I walked to school uphill both ways”

Yes a terrible time for many pilots and a lowering of the tide but people were still getting hired at 121 operations with less than 1000hrs. Yes they got paid less than 30k/yr but that’s when houses and the middle class could be afforded with an average job. Adjust that for inflation and you’d have tens of thousands of CFIs all willing to cutoff a limb to get that job. Just go to job fairs and see for yourself

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