I'm sitting here playing Microsoft Flight Simulator and a thought occurred to me. Since corporate aviation mathematically is less safe than commercial aviation, the blue collar guy on Spirit Airlines has a leg up on a CEO in a sense. Am I wrong?

I'm a spotter based in Melbourne so I often in the evening go to Operations Road and spot in the last 2 hours before sunset. Or sometimes I go in the early morning to get shots from T4.

Currently, I've got a Canon 70D with a 18-200mm kit lens which I use for spotting. I also have a spare Sony A7ii camera lying around which I don't use because of horrible battery life and not an ideal lens.

I'm going to get a new lens, probably a Sigma 100-400. I'm debating whether I should stick with Canon or use my Sony camera instead. I would assume it's a better camera since it's 24.3 mp compared to the 20 or so on my 70D. But the 70D is also a crop factor camera which would effectively make it a 160-640, however I'm not entirely sure how that works and whether a full frame sensor is better than crop factor or not.

Another factor making me lean more towards the Sony camera is the fact that there is practically ZERO Sigma 100-400 lenses around that work with the EF mount for some reason unless I buy one secondhand.

If you had unlimited money to buy yourself one plane, what would it be? Curious to hear others opinions. Mine would be a DA62.

Edit: Or a Pilatus Turbo Porter on floats. I can’t decide…

Looking to find out where/how I can get flight info from a flight back in 2022. Flightradar and others seem to only track back 1 year.

Looking for flight #UA2679 DEN-ORD on 10/28/22

I'm about to go on a ryanair flight and i was wondering if there were any apps that would be able to tell me my speed and altitude whilst on the plane as a passenger (one that would work with airplane mode on).

https://airlinegeeks.com/2025/02/02/duffy-faa-keeping-all-safety-positions/

There have been some concepts by Boeing and Airbus (one of the zeroE proposals) involving blended wing body designs.

Are these designs feasible from both practical and economic perspectives and might they replace current tube and wing designs?

So, I’m a 16 year old boy who wants to get into the aviation career, but I am very torn on which pathway I want to go down, and how to go down that path. As of right now and i’m already taking flight school to get my private pilots license so i’m somewhat on track. I fly a Cessna 172 if anybody is curious.

Anyway, I have been doing some research on a few different aviation careers like flying for a private broker like NetJet or FlexJet, flying for airlines like American Airlines or Delta, flying for some shipping company like UPS or even DHL, and even flying for a Wildlands Fire Company. I was also thinking trying for the air force academy but I don’t know if I want to commit most my life to the military.

Does anybody have any ideas or recommendations? I’m very torn.

So, I like to mess around with ForeFlight and make flight plans for fun. One thing I enjoy doing is playing with cruise speeds to see how fast I could hypothetically get to certain destinations.

For example, I made one of my “planes” an F-35 because, why not? I know the top speed of an F-35 is around 1,200 knots, so I put that as my cruise speed.

However, when I try to set it up in ForeFlight, I keep getting an error message saying, “Aircraft configuration not supported.” Even when I lower it to 500 knots I get the same error message.

Obviously, this isn’t for real flight planning—just something fun I do to kill time and explore crazy scenarios. Is there any way to bypass this or trick ForeFlight into letting me use speeds like that? Anyone else like to play around with ridiculous cruise speeds just for fun?

Thanks in advance for any tips or ideas!

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