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Drake had a bit of a hairy moment while flying recently - and you can be sure he wasn't on a commercial flight.
Instead, the Canadian rapper was flying on his private jet, which he has dubbed Drake Air.
In a clip posted on Instagram, Drake shared a particularly tricky landing - in really low visibility against grey skies.
With thick fog swirling, Drake had gone to the cockpit to look over his piloting team's shoulders as they descended. At first, all you can really hear is the jet's software counting down the descent as it gets nearer to the ground.
For the longest time, though, you still can't actually see anything, and it's only right before the jet touches down that you finally get a view of the runway. At this point, the instruments have counted down to 50 feet, so it really does come at the last moment.
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The landing looks remarkably smooth, even at that point, and the way that the pilots are able to effortlessly ignore the lack of visibility to rely on their instruments is pretty impressive (even if that might be fairly pedestrian for a professional pilot).
Drake captioned the video: "There’s a couple landings I love on Air Drake but tbh the low visibility is the most exciting it makes your heart drop a bit…lucky I got the best putting this s*** wheels down".
The clip has prompted users to comment with amazement at how calm Drake is during the landing, with one writing: "That’s wild, I would have lost it."
The singer's jet is reportedly worth $185 million, but he didn't have to buy it - the Canadian cargo line Cargojet gifted it to him in 2019. Drake then remodelled it extensively, including renaming it Drake Air and decorating it with a blue background studded with clouds.
This is a slightly controversial time to flex about your private jet, of course, with climate activists becoming more and more vocal against celebrities routinely using jets, given their impact on the environment.
This was thrown into stark relief after the Super Bowl this year, when an animation showed the departure of hundreds of private jets from Las Vegas after the sporting event. The sheer number of flights is pretty jaw-dropping to see - and makes you wonder just how high the carbon emissions are from the rich and famous constantly chartering private jets.
