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Longest nonstop, real time flight

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I admit Im not a long-duration kind of guy. My longest flight in about 2 years of simming was a night flight from Chicago to LA in a MelJet 777, but I have a wife and kids, so I dont always get as much continuous time in the air as I wish. I do lots of 1-2 hour flights around the coastal Southeast and Europe. I did doze off one time on a hop in a AA Fokker 100 from Tampa to Cancun and found myself at FL34 over darkest central mexico without a clue where I was.So how bout it. What's your longest flight without stopping?BTW: Setting autopilot to follow a GPS heading, then going to school or work and coming home 8 hours later to land doesnt count. Gotta be in the building, if not in front of the screen.

Done several pond hops in the 767, but my longest had to be KLAX-EGLL in the PSS 744. Loong flight :D

My longest flight was 6.3 hours in a C172. It wasn't exactly nonstop, I had to stop for fuel, and it wasn't in Flight Sim either, so does it still count? Longest Flightsim flight was just over 3 hours in the Flight1 Cessna 421.

Longest flight would be around five to six hours (depending on direction) between KBFI and PHNL, KBFI and KJFK, and KBOS and EIDW

20-5-03 DC-8-54F Air New Zealand Cargo ymhb-rjtt 12.29-6-03 DC-8-54F Air New Zealand Cargo NZAA-PGSN-MKJP 14.8and there are many more of those....i must admit that i do ocasionally fall asleep at the helm,to wake up and find my plane back at the starting airport....i need a blackbox :-xxrotflmao

I remember planning a round the world flight in a Concorde for the purpose of making a really really cool movie LOL. I had it planned out for a few days before. It was ment to be an all automatic, unassisted flight, with Hypersnap set to take and save a jpg every 5 seconds. Since I was pushing for massive, massive distance, I enabled unlimited fuel. Since I did not pilot this (computer did), it was only for fun, I never logged it. I did end up making an awesome movie out of it. It was breathtaking to see 2 days and 2 nights in a single day LOL. Too bad I no longer have that movie, it took work to do that LOL.Since the Earth's circumference is ~25,000 miles (24,855), and the trip was 20 hours long (average speed of ~1300mph), I think I had broken several speed records too on that flight LOL. Of course I didn't fly properly, oh well, at least I had fun doing it :-lol! I did it 2 years ago (early in FS2002), and I still haven't attempted to it again LOL.

My longest one was from Anchorage to Madrid (LEMD) in a Posky 747-300 Iberia Jos

Back in 1998 I joined one of the first fly-ins of VATSIM (well, it's predecessor). It was a fly-in from anywhere in the world to KSFO.To join, you had to do a test flight a few days before, in order to check your connection quality & speed :) Also you were assigned a specific landing slot time.I flew a KLM744 from Amsterdam to San Francisco, I'm not sure how long it took but I guess it was about 10-11 hours.Because online flying and ATC was rather new in those days, it was extremely cool to see others. I clearly remember that on final I had another 744 next to me, landing on the other (parallel) runway.It was certainly the longest flight I ever made and still is.Normally I do flights of 1-2 hours.

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The longest I've done with FS2004 without any time compression at all is about two to three hours, including a night VATSIM flight from Seattle to LAX in the default 737-400, which was very cool. I had a flight take about four real-time hours once, but that was taking a B377 Stratocruiser EGKK-KEWR. 12:36 in-game. :)Back in the ancient days of FS4, and the old Compuserve Flight Sim Forum "Fly-Ins" (geez, I feel old), they did a Fly-In to KDCA. One of the participants flew a 747-400 real-time from somewhere in Australia and managed to actually land it at KDCA after four missed approaches, with about 25 of us in the chat room urging him on. :)Lewis "Moose" GregoryColumbia, South CarolinaSolent 644

Lewis "Moose" Gregory

Durham, North Carolina

Just completed a flight 2 hours ago, KSEA to EGLL, Took me 9.5 Hours. That's my longest flight.

Longest I've done in FS without leaving home in between is some 16 hours, from Heathrow to Narita.Longest withou leaving the screen for longer than to get a drink or go to the bathroom is about 10 hours (call me crazy :)).Longest handflown flight 7 hours (4 of those flown without autopilot, FSMaintenance had failed it 4 hours from the nearest land over the Pacific).Longest in real life as a passenger 12 hours.

I used to travel to Asia for work all the time so I got used to sitting (for real) on the long hauls. Fortunately, I got to go in Biz class so that made it more enjoyable.Anyway, I still make KLAX-VHHH, KLAX-YSSY, KORD-RJAA runs IN REAL TIME -- in my chair except for potty breaks -- pretty regularly. Once every couple of months. I do cat nap a little but I'm there to take the call.Worst case...One time I was flying from KLAX-YSSY. On final approach, after flying nearly 15 hours in real time, my computer locked up. I was devastated. It took me a long time to get over that one.Unless you LOVE flight simulator you can't understand what a "high" it is to actually see Hong Kong come into view after flying all night and then landing. It's just surreal.:)

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