I never speed up the time. Ever. If I think the flight is too long, I wont fly it. There are plenty of shorter routes to fly then just speeding up so I can fly across the ocean quickly. Plus with the feelthere ERJ and the PMDG J41, I have a plane that can properly be flown on short jumps and I dont feel like an idiot, which I do when I fly a 747 from O'Hare to Detroit. :)If the flight is longer than a single crew is allowed to fly, I will simulate crew shifts, and hand over the plane in cruise so I can get some shut eye in the cabin, or check the in flight movie (I do this by either watching some TV, or playing XBOX) Once my break is over, i head back to the flight deck and fly her all the way to the gate.

I always use the time compression when at cruise. As a working man with a family, I don't have the luxury of sitting at my comp for 11+ hours watching pretty much nothing. I honestly can't understand how people do this. I mean, its boring! thats 11 hours in a day that you could have been doing something else besides sitting at your comp (ie. exercise, beer, getting laid, etc etc...all the good things :(). Anyway, thats just me and I don't mean to turn this into a fight or anything. But again, I'm married with a family so I don't have this luxury. In 11 hrs I could complete around 5-8 flights (short hops, etc) which is much more satisfying. I like to concentrate on the planning, takeoff, descent, approach and landing (in that order) not the monotonous hours spent in cruise, hence I fast forward everything. Pharoah*runs and hides from the wrath*

On my long hauls in the PMDG MD11 or LevelD 767, I just do some exercises, watch TV or web browsing. But I never do time compression, I feel that is unrealistic. And I tend to do split those long hauls by saving the flight at certain intervals, reloading the flight (and the weather at the point I saved the flight using Active Sky Evolution's historical time feature). But I can understand why some will say it must be very boring at cruise, because it really is. I'm sure things were different before FMCs and the automation that is expected in modern heavies, when you had to rely on VOR to VOR navigation.

With 36 year RW flight experience, I now fly no more than 2 hour simulated flights. Long haul to me becomes boring. I don't see the point in making a flight, and while flying go to bed, play a game etc... Interesting to see that some who wrote about doing it have detailed add-ons like FS2Crew to make their flights more realistic. Never said it was easy to understand everybody.

I never use time compression either, but when I do longish flights (more than say 1.5 hours) I just minimize FSX and use my computer for other stuff and just check fsx every now and then to make sure that my plane isnt in the water or something. Also, I fly all my flights online so I cannot really leave my computer with the plane flying on autopilot, nor would my VA allow me to use time compression. The way I feel about it is if I want to fly I better stay infront of the computer. It would be pointless not to. If I dont have time for that I'd just fly a shorter flight istead

When I do a 18 hour flight, I am committed to reproducing the event to its maximum authenticity.Hell, I even prepare those disgusting meals you get up there, along with that, some pointless IFE with CNN or Euronews. The volume is loud enough so that if I closed my eyes it would be as if I'd be really flying. The only thing missing is that comfy dry air from FL450 and the delicious FL450 cold water. :)

Landed on Tuesday night with a 60 degree x-wind and it handled really well. Just got checked out on the Perspective. Synthetic vision, integrated autopilot with AIS & VNV, Keypad (FMS like) and EVS to name a few new features. It makes the Avidyne look somewhat antiquited. :(

I know this thread is old... But have you checked out Avidyne's R9? Seems to be a major improvement over the classic one, don't know how i compares to G1K or Perspective though (haven't flown any of them so far). I seem to kinda prefer the user interface over the Garmin one. Although the G might have the more options, just like before I believe...

When I do a 18 hour flight, I am committed to reproducing the event to its maximum authenticity.Hell, I even prepare those disgusting meals you get up there, along with that, some pointless IFE with CNN or Euronews. The volume is loud enough so that if I closed my eyes it would be as if I'd be really flying. The only thing missing is that comfy dry air from FL450 and the delicious FL450 cold water. :)

Hah, I do the same thing, turn on CNN on my TV and pretend it is the IFE. Now maybe if I can hook up an industrial de-humidifier then I can really get that cabin air feel, we be good to go! Nothing like the feeling of dried out eyes to remind me that I have been flying for hours.

So, since when do pilots get to watch the IFE? I'd rather have my girlfriend come to the cockpit as my personal flight attendant and entertain me. Just like the girl on the Air France video someone posted somewhere on the forum :(

So, since when do pilots get to watch the IFE? I'd rather have my girlfriend come to the cockpit as my personal flight attendant and entertain me. Just like the girl on the Air France video someone posted somewhere on the forum :(

Hacked lower EICAS 'eslol

I can't compress time sitting in the seat of the aircraft I fly out in the real world, so I refuse to compress in the sim. If I can manage to sit at the wheel of a C207 for five hours at a time, I can manage most flights in the sim. Compression in my view is cheating - simple as that.To change up the pace, get a book, watch a movie, or connect up to VATSIM to get some ATC direction and handoffs. Beware - don't leave without alerting ATC, else they'll boot you after 30 min of no response, depending on if the controller is like me or not.Cheers,Kyle

When I was younger - I used to do the super long flights across the pacific. I would plot a course in FSNavigator, take off and go to bed. I would then set my alarm clock and wake up - and complete the approach.

This is me... totally (well, substitute FSCommander for FSNavigator). I set the PMDG MD-11F (FSX) up for a full-performance flight (usually KDFW to somewhere in Europe) and get her up to altitude before bedtime. Then, I set my alarm just a touch early, conclude the flight from TOD and then go about my day. Sometimes, for reverse, I set everything up before work and then repeat that in the other direction. This way, I am in Sync with the NATS routes and I get all the joys out of long-haul in the PDMG-level aircraft:route planningaircraft prepchecklistsBusy airspace negotiation (Ultimate Traffic II)once in cruise, I leave and let the computer do the boring stuff while I'm away (think of it as having relief pilots).On the other end, I get all the joys of operating after TOD.I'd use the 747-400F more often, but I have to manually do the steps climbs whereas the MD-11F handles that on its own.I'm with the others in that I don't accelerate. However, as it is a sim, I don't care about stepping away for 85% of the flight. The joy of this (to answer a question posed in this thread) is using the simulator to move my pretend aircraft in real-time to the destination. If it is a certain time on my computer, that's the time it is at my destination/arrival, etc. I like the thought of that. Like many others, I am a wannabe who never managed to make this stuff my career, so I engage it as a sim-hobby. I'll always love heavy-iron in FS and will always want to operate in the manner I just described. I do like 2-3 hour flights and will sit through those, but I really just like everything from pre-flight to startup to takeoff and, subsequently, descent, approach, landing, taxi in and shutdown. If you look at the checklists for any of the complex and high-quality addons, you'll see that these are the phases of flight where the "action" is.I'm very pleased that FSX (and versions before) have afforded me this luxury. I remember an early 747-400 add-on in the 1990s where we still only had Northern California, Chicago and the NYC/Long Island area to fly in. We had the opposite problem then, we COULDN'T use the 747 in a real profile whatsoever. Now, with the realistic oblate spheroid model in FSX (thanks and praise to Adam Szofran), we have the whole blue marble to fly over for hours and hours. It just makes me think of how GREAT we have it with FSX.

At the end of the day, whether you use time compression or not is your choice. If you want to spend hours in front of the pc staring at the nm's tick over..go for it. Others like me only have a limited time to use in flightsimming and so try to make the most of it. Each to their own I guess. Now where's that PMDG update? ;)

LOL - That is way too funny....The VA's won't allow time compression but it is ok to step out of the Flight Deck and play XBOX or watch a DVD....Imagine that in the real world:"Ladies and Gentlemen the Captain has turned off the Seatbelt Sign and we are now reaching cruising altitude. For something a little different the Captain and First Officer will be joining us in the cabin to watch our feature film with us. Don't worry about a thing this is perfectly safe as the aircraft will be left on Autopilot and the Captain will be checking in on the Flight Deck periodically.....Thank-you for flying with our airline today" :(

LOL, didn't a Captain and his F/O do this in RL to judge a wet "T" shirt contest or something to that effect when they were flying to or from Mexico. :(

I saw that somewhere too, sounds like something Quagmire would do. Giggity Giggity Goo, Alright.