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Originally Posted by Profraine

I love you. You don't know how mind boggling it is to keep a bird flying with all that crap still working. Seriously, there's almost a dozen different types of jobs required to maintain any type of aircraft on a good day, let alone how human idiocy messes this stuff up on a daily basis.

Protip: Pre-flight checks usually take 1 to 2 hours if the bird is good.

When I was flying regularly, doing my pre-flights for just a Cessna 172 took like 30 min at least, much more if it was after a big break with no flight time.

I can't imagine all the work that goes into keeping a top-grade military jet in pristine order, I have huge respect for Air Force and Navy pilots and aircrew.
Flying is fun as hell but real complicated at times haha