I think it will be very hard change for me as I used to fly over Atlantic in 3 and a half hours in my Concorde X :(

Long haul can be fun especially on Vatsim or IVAO. If there's no atc on or if I'm in between I usually watch tv or do little jobs around the house or something. You don't have to sit in front of your pc for the whole flight. Short flights will be fun with the T7 too though. I use the 744 on some short haul now. Fly whatever you want. Lee

Air Canada uses the 777's between Toronto and Montreal many times per day. That's like an hour long flight. I just recently started flying long hauls but me too I usually am allowed a max of 2 hours on the computer if my parents are in a good mood. So what I do is either fly an hour or two everyday until the flight is done or I start my flight, bring it to cruise, pretend to go to sleep and turn the computer off, and when my parents are asleep I pull an allnighter on the computer. :D

You don't have to fly long haul flights with the 777 and 747. Both of those aircraft are used on numerous short and medium haul routes where high capacity is desired. Besides, this is a simulator - not every route you fly has to correspond to a real world one.

Exactly. You could fly YBBN or YSSY or YMML to NZAA in an Air New Zealand livery. I am fairly sure Air NZ use the 777 on one of those routes and they are not incredibly long routes either, but nor are they short.

I like to emjoy the aircrafts, the systems and I fly what it fits to my spare time and/or desire (short/med/long)

You don't have to fly long haul flights with the 777 and 747. Both of those aircraft are used on numerous short and medium haul routes where high capacity is desired. Besides, this is a simulator - not every route you fly has to correspond to a real world one.

I have flown 15 hour 777 flights on Fs9....I can just leave it running at x4 simulation rate and checkup on it every now and then....People may not enjoy simming this way but I do :)

Thanks everyone for your input. I looked at 'Flightaware' to get some routes based on aircraft type, and I knew I couldn't do most of those without flying at 8x acceleration. That breaks off any sense of reality for me, so now I'm looking for those routes that are shorter in duration. I just came across a KJFK to KORD on a 747, and hopefully I can come across a few more. Of course, I could just make up my own routes (we are just simming, after all), and I may have to do that. With PMDG as developer, I'm sure I'll be buying at least one of these big boys.

Don't forget, you can also break up the long haul flights over a few days by saving the flight. That is what I had done in the past with the PMDG 747 and MD-11 flights I used to fly. Thanks to historical weather with Active Sky Evolution, and the full featured panel save technology on the PMDG aircraft, you really can pick up right where you left off.

I enjoy both. I used to fly the 744 from SYD-LAX in real time but that would be whilst I am sleeping!Since the 737 I have enjoyed some shorter flights <3 hours... but with the 747/777 I am looking forward to some longer ones again.

Really? There must be high demand for that flight!!

no, like he said... Repositioningmitch bowman

I normally have 60 to 90 minutes available for my simming sessions, so the NGX works great in that time frame. I love PMDG products, and I'm trying to figure out how to adapt to long-haul flights with their T7 or 747. Is long haul fun, and how much time do you need to set aside? I'm looking for opinions to see if my simming style will work with the larger Boeings.

you can always speed up the simmitch bowman

I think Delta still operates a 777-200LR from Atlanta to Detroit. I will be defiantly flying that route a lot.

I think that flight operates semi-daily I was luck enough 2 years ago to get the 777-200ER on that route, last I got atl-lax on the LR, both terrefic a/c.

I absolutely love long hauls. They have something that the short hauls don't have. It requires much more time to set up a hong haul, allows you to experience the various transits between night and day, etc.I'd say more but I have to go now....

Hi everyoneYou can definitely do some great short haul real flights in Asia. KLM 747 Taipei to Bangkok, Cathay fly 747 and 777 between Hong Kong and Taipei. China Airlines also fly this route with 747. Lots of Singapore 777 short hauls in the region. Japan routes too. Very excited for these two new aircraft and using them for short hauls. I have never tried a long haul flight in FSX.

Well I would love to do Air India B777 flights from Delhi-Heathrow routes ..They fly to US and Canada as well ;)

For the shorthauls, Thai airways operates both the Triple seven and 747 between Bangkok and Phuket.