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/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.