Problem statement

An aviation application tracks an aircraft that took off at a specific date and time and landed later. You need to implement a utility method that calculates the exact duration of the flight and returns it in a user-friendly format for the digital flight log.

Task requirements

• Implement the GetFlightDurationString method in the FlightTracker class within the Aviation namespace.

• Calculate the exact flight duration by subtracting the takeoff time from the landing time.

• Extract the whole hours and whole minutes from the resulting duration.

• Return a string stating the flight time explicitly as “X hours and Y minutes”.

Constraints

• Use the DateTime struct to represent the takeoff and landing times.

• Use the - operator to calculate the TimeSpan difference between the two DateTime parameters.

• Use the .Hours and .Minutes properties of the TimeSpan struct to format the output. Do not use .TotalHours or .TotalMinutes.

• Return the formatted string using modern string interpolation.

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Get hints

• Subtracting an older DateTime from a newer DateTime natively returns a TimeSpan object.

• The .Hours property extracts the whole hours component of the duration, ignoring any remaining minutes or seconds.

• The .Minutes property extracts the whole minutes component that did not divide evenly into a full hour.

• Make sure your method returns the interpolated string instead of printing it directly.