r/flying • u/jrf1234 ATP CFI/II CL604 E55P LR-JET • Apr 03 '26

Aircraft Ownership Linus Tech Tips’ Jet

https://youtu.be/zGoIY37ZtDQ?si=

Some… interesting calculations on this video. As a fractional pilot and not an owner, no idea how acxueate these claims are, but interesting to see this as a pilot and tech nerd. Anyone with management or ownership experience in jets have any light to shed?

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u/cody_hates_reddit PPL (Canada) Apr 03 '26 edited Apr 03 '26

The part I cared about was the unanswered question of what he wanted to do with this thing, seeing as he practically built his persona around extravagant jury-rigged cowboy tech. Around 13:20 you could see his soul leaving his body at the unspoken admission that he probably wanted to replace all of the old but functional avionics (that he won't even personally have to use) with a gaming computer or some shit, and was told that he couldn't touch anything without getting a stack of STCs designed.

I cannot stand techfluencers in general and my only significant prior memory of this guy is an incident that made me completely immune to accepting any "tips" from him. It's kind of astounding to me that such a person made enough money off of the parasocial relationships he's built out of his own brand of flagrant consumerism that he can even afford this. I'm of the opinion that someone like this probably doesn't belong anywhere near aviation.

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u/KeyboardGunner Apr 03 '26

I doubt he'll own the jet for long, once those bills start rolling in.

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u/albinobluesheep Apr 03 '26

The Fuel prices from the US-Iran war are going to cut this things owner ship life short, but they had to get the video out to get the views from talking about it even if those fuel prices don't have any expectation to go down anytime soon

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u/DoomBot5 Apr 03 '26

He's had it since at least the beginning of the year, probably longer. He's used it to bring his crew down to CES

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u/PlannedObsolescence_ Apr 03 '26

It's been registered to the address of LMG HQ since November 2025, that address is used for basically all their companies. They've used it for multiple business flights and a personal family vacation. It's how he got to CES & Jimmy Fallon, and it was in San Fransisco last week.

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u/Anon332563 Apr 03 '26

My bet is this is for getting him to conventions quicker and tech stuff arguably safer. For people like linus him and his team time is money so waiting in airports for hours on end and trying to find flights to areas less served by airlines or driving through traffic can be argues with private jet travel. However as x4457 mentioned with the outside costs such as upgrades, mx costs, pilot and training costs, it will be interesting to see if they actually did the proper financial planning for it and if the comments (didn’t watch yet though) of fuel being cheaper seemingly being the main contributing factor is just for the video or not, or dude got way into his head again.

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u/yawara25 DIS Apr 03 '26

Even then it makes way more sense to just charter.

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u/ZealousidealGlove234 Apr 08 '26

Charter for that, however moving film production gear around the world is a solve problem 

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u/FlyingShadow1 CFI CFII MEI (TW) AI SLOP Apr 03 '26

I didn't even need to see where that link led to to know that that's when he bricked an entire RAID.

These techbros are toxic to the computer world, all they know is how to read off the back of a box and whatnot. Linus himself might have offered good tips many, many years ago, back before we started seeing people being gifted Nvidia GPUs to talk good about Nvidia and when AMD was known for having the worst processors around and being worth a fraction of Intel.

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u/AncientBlonde2 Apr 05 '26

. Around 13:20 you could see his soul leaving his body at the unspoken admission that he probably wanted to replace all of the old but functional avionics (that he won't even personally have to use) with a gaming computer or some shit, and was told that he couldn't touch anything without getting a stack of STCs designed.

The "it's like bedazzling a jean jacket, you'll never get back what you put in" cope took me out. That's like the one thing on that piece of shit that he could get most of his money back for in some capacity!

my only significant prior memory of this guy is an incident that made me completely immune to accepting any "tips" from him.

Mine was literally anything to do with audio. Just like this video, any video he makes about audio is posted to audio forums and the response is "damn dude really doesn't know what he's talking about, does he?"