anonymousperson767

Realistically how close is Russia past the tipping point of losing? Every day I read reports like "they've used 80% of their cruise missile inventory" or "they lost 3 more ammo depots over the weekend"...every weekend. Or bringing out tanks from storage that were outdated even 20 years ago. These all sound like significant blows to their operational capability. How much gas left in the tank do they really have?

2007: when you could be a top-5 youtuber just by having a DSLR do the filming and some editing.

Personally I say they lost when they failed to take Kyiv before NATO had a chance to respond. I was telling my UKR girlfriend (us citizen now) that if russia doesn’t win in a week then it’s over because nato will be spun up by then.

How about how much pilot discretion there is for speed vs. how much needs approval? I swear when I fly semi-private they can put the foot down and make a scheduled 2.5 hour flight take 1.5 hours if it’s running behind schedule. Even commercial it seems they can make up time. Are there other common tricks for speed vs altitude vs fuel burn?

Do you ever have to worry about a plane trying to overtake another plane? As in: do you have to look at a route plan that includes other aircraft or does ATC deal with this?

I’ve never had to question if a pilot at 38k wants to overtake another pilot at 37k going to the same destination on the same waypoints.