Weren't airlines purposefully inflating trip times because of the Biden administration's rule changes on trip refunds?
Party pooper here.
You know when fast food workers post images of things like stepping bare footed onto a bowl of salad?
To me, this is the equivalent for pilots. Safety, checklists and routines, take time. Don't go posting on social media that your are competing in this space.
Ps: the post in question is arguably not too bad. But, if this is "a thing", then I'd suggest to be careful to be associated with it.
Safety, checklists and routines, take time.
Walkarounds and such are done before takeoff, and you aren't taking off early, especially not in an airliner. In-flight checklists don't take more or less time, since the airliner is going whether you want it or not, and the pilot does not / can not just set the throttle for a faster speed. It's fine.
There are two major factors influencing travel time on an airliner, neither of them have anything to do with doing stuff faster with less attention to safety. They are airport organisation and prevailing winds.
If your departure/destination is competent and there are less complications from overworked ATC or other planes being late on arrival/departure, you're most likely fine.
The big thing though is wind. A head/tailwind can affect your ground speed to a degree of +/- 30% in extreme cases, so these are harmless. It's not even up to the pilot "going faster". There are similar posts and even articles about airliners "breaking the sound barrier", eg. having a larger ground speed than the speed of sound in static air on the ground.
LGL to ATL usually is a 2 hour flight. Wonder if they had more time booked due to air traffic.
Stretch goal: Arrive before takeoff.
Happens everyday thanks to time zones.
Journey before destination
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Boeing is doing the low% speedrun where you try to get to your destination with the least aircraft parts.
At this point arriving at the airport is optional.
<Pilots start looking for glitches>
Hmm, after reading my contract carefully, there's nothing in there that explicitly says I actually have to wait for the passengers and baggage to be loaded before taking off...
[halfway through the flight] "Dang, I can't make this time. Going to reset"
Just type in the 7500 cheatcode and you can take shortcuts through military airspace.
A TOS shows that if you do an out of bounds glitch you can trigger the loading zone under ground because they stretch to the bottom of the sky box.
Checks out. I always try to fly Delta when possible. Had the least amount of delays from them.
JFK to LAX, any % of passengers.
If it was any% of plane, there are some creative launching strategies we could explore.
And landing
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By any % of passengers, You mean seats filled, or do You mean arrive with a different amount that You took off with?
Yes.
Literally just gun it towards the landing strip at full speed to save one framerule
Block time (airlines calculate it differently) was traditionally viewed from “block to block”, the time the wheel chocks were removed for the aircraft to move under its own power for departure to the time the wheel chocks were put back under the wheels at destination. Now it just means what the airline thinks the flight time will be for scheduling purposes.
As a passenger, this is what you see when your app tells you the flight time. It includes taxi out and taxi in.
Delay-prone flights are often over blocked, so a perfectly delay-free flight (push, taxi, takeoff, fly, land, taxi in, park) that takes say an hour and a half total might me blocked for 1:50 because historically one of the airports might be busy at that time an they know there will be a long taxi, gate holds, whatever.
So sometimes fate smiles on everyone and you get to leave early, miss whatever built in delays there might be planned, ATC gives you a couple shortcuts, a favorable wind, and bam, you’re in 30 minutes early.
So not really a speed run, just lots of luck.
Nice explanation, thanks.
I was thinking that maybe the company needed that plane somewhere quickly and just said screw it to fuel efficiency.
The RNG gods giveth and the RNG gods take away.
oh like a flipped bit isn't also lots of luck
Southwest Airlines pays their pilots a bonus for every minute they block in early.
Guess who has a reputation for bugging ATC for shortcuts and taxiing really fast.
Aha, I knew it! Flight attendants get paid per 'flight' hour and the pilots get bonuses to reduce the amount of time the attendants are paid for. That's fucked up
Spirit?
Ooooh, so that's why I saw a plane doing janky backwards jumps before being flung off into the sky.
Hey guys desinc here, today I'm gonna show you some tricks and glitches in real life
Ladies and gentelmen this is your pilot speaking, I've gone ahead and put the seat belt lights back on because Marlons a fucking showoff and thinks he so great. Buckle up and hold tight.
No no no, that's only 52 minutes early. He left 2 minutes before the scheduled start time. Quit trying to boost your stats, man!
Me farming gold 10 seconds before the match ends to look good on the stats screen:
Sometimes I like to speedrun deliveries in American Truck Simulator. Turn off fatigue (roleplay my driver as addicted to energy drinks and cocaine and pees in bottles) and drive at 105 mph (168.981 km/hr) halfway across the country.
Get there 3 days early, because faster deliveries means more Value® to the shareholders.
I definitely enjoyed when trucks showed up 3 days earlier than they were supposed to when i ran a shipping dock. It definitely didn't fuck up our whole system, no way.
Weird, I don't remember making this comment
(I use the new Volvo VNL sleeper with the stock engine, so 85 is about all it can do, but you ever got up on 2 wheels - technically 5 but - at a near-perfect 45 degree tilt, while doing 80, because you are determined to prove that "30 mph advisory speed" sign wrong? 85 the whole way, ducking and weaving and using the shoulders and the median...)
Get there 3 days early, because faster deliveries means more Value® to the shareholders.
If you aren't providing Value® the shareholders. You have to ask yourself, "Am I good employee?"
Freebird intensifys
They do. And it can end like this.
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.
Do they allow clipping? Or is that a different category?
Collision detection isn't perfect. If you save and load just at the right time while moving forwards you can sometimes clip through walls. So walls are basically just a suggestion. The only problem is that if you mess it up, you die and loose time due to the unskippable death animation...
But no one messes that trick up right?
So what im hearing is that 9/11 was a messed up speed run?
That's debatable. While they were initially going for the clip glitch, they ended up discovering a wrong warp.
If you die on the same frame as falling down a hole and the screen transitions, it increments the submode which results in a broken mode-submode combination. The room number in RAM changes to that of the room below, however it is never loaded. Thus, transitioning north places you in the room north of the room below this one, from which you can jump through a wall to activate EG. This also underflows the room number from 10 to 250 which causes all sprites to despawn, including the mantle blocking the sewers in Escape.
The Book of Superskuj, 753:12-15
I read that in desync's voice
I'm assuming getting all your passengers there is considered a 100% run. I think the players branching out into lower % runs will open up some pretty big time savings and make for much more interesting runs.
you can take off as soon as the first passenger steps into the plane for a massive time save
Still need to wait for the safety information cutscene though
Low%, get to your destination with as few passengers and plane parts remaining as possible
Boeing over here turning bugs into features
In before someone posts the Aspen 20 Speedcheck copypasta
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
I mean I'm not surprised. You'd be amazed at the stupid shit people think is cool.
Hacks!
I learned all I needed to know about pilots when I learned about the GUARD frequency
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
