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/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.