The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.
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The topics it labels
Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.
Flight Training 97other 34Checkride 29Medical Issues 24Canada 24EASA 19Getting Hired 17UK 14First Solo 12DPE Report 11
What the ceiling looks like
The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.
Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.
What is r/flying?
r/flying describes itself this way: This community is for discussion among pilots, students, instructors and aviation professionals. It was founded in 2008 and has 497K members.
How many members does r/flying have?
r/flying has about 500.1K members. ViralHunt has tracked 912 of its posts; the biggest reached 10.1K upvotes, which is 20 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/flying?
"The cake my spouse got me for my first student solo flight." reached 10.1K upvotes and 139 comments in 2024, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/flying.
What subreddits are similar to r/flying?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/alaska, r/popculture, r/BlueskySkeets, r/ProgressiveHQ, r/Snorkblot, r/Yosemite.
What kind of posts do best on r/flying?
Of the posts we hold, 55% are text posts and 28% are question posts.
When is the best time to post on r/flying?
Across 912 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Monday at 02:00 UTC (2.6K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 00:00 UTC (2K avg upvotes), Friday at 22:00 UTC (1.7K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Thursday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/flying?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/flying has 3.5K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 301 posts from it in the last 30 days.
See what is climbing here before you write
ViralHunt tracks Reddit and eight other networks, records how every post grows, and puts what is taking off in front of your team in one list.
Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/flying, not everything the
community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is
weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong.
Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed.
See how we measure.