Little point throwing away at least 6 KWH of electricity for a 10 hour flight where I would only enjoy really two hours of it (planning, preparation, taxi, take-off, climb to cruise, descent, approach, taxi, parking)...

It is high time we realise that energy can't be wasted, especially when we don't actually sit in front of the screen...! It's just plain common sense.

 

So for me long range flights are with time acceleration during the whole cruise time (up to 8 times if possible), and the "Freeze at TOD" utility is quite handy!

Little point throwing away at least 6 KWH of electricity for a 10 hour flight where I would only enjoy really two hours of it (planning, preparation, taxi, take-off, climb to cruise, descent, approach, taxi, parking)...

It is high time we realise that energy can't be wasted, especially when we don't actually sit in front of the screen...! It's just plain common sense.

 

So for me long range flights are with time acceleration during the whole cruise time (up to 8 times if possible), and the "Freeze at TOD" utility is quite handy!

 

Sorry to all the tree huggers, but I have my computer on 24/7 anyway for a number of other reasons not just simming Not feeling I waste anything I pay for my electricity so why can't i use it the way i like?

Flight has a great feature when flying jobs where you handle the takeoff, turn towards the destination, and then you can skip forward until you are about five miles out. Then you fly the approach and land.

I don't have childreen and I can see your point ^_^

Different strokes i guess some have time to do those long hauls and some don't. :rolleyes:

 

Let me see, there are the children (now adults), grand children, dog, cat, oh and wifee...lets not forget about her, the lawn care and maintenance, well golf of course, more landscaping and golf, reading a good book (of which there are millions), But no NHL hockey thank goodness now I tons of extra time for long hauls.... :Applause:

Flight has a great feature when flying jobs where you handle the takeoff, turn towards the destination, and then you can skip forward until you are about five miles out. Then you fly the approach and land.

 

MS Flight :LMAO:

One thing you could do at cruise on your long haul is to give oceanic radio your position reports ... provided that you fly online of course ... and that there are oceanic controllers online

On occasion, I will increase the simrate but most of my flights are done in real time. I will only sit at the computer for flights less than one hour. My typical flight is between 3-5 hours, I will usually start those before dinner, and land after my wife falls asleep.

 

I use the default ATC so I will fly until I am cleared to my cruise altitude and leave ATC hanging at the next handoff. One of the nice features of the QW aircraft is you can set them to pause at TOD. If I want to do a longer flight, I will increase the simrate just enough to fit the flight in to my 3-5 hour window.

The power plant in Miami s a nuclear facility so damage to the environment is minimal

 

I only do long hauls when I know i have time. Right now being in grad school I still have so,e holiday breaks and usually a week or two in the summer months were I am not working. I know in about 1.5 years long hauls will be a thing of finding that one weekend night a month I have time to do it so for now I'm doing it however I want.

 

It's not like people who run real time don't have anything better to do. I've gone to dinner, slept, did work, read, worked out etc.. During long hauls. The power argument makes sense but no complaints on the power bill for me and I've been doing this for years now. Besides the A/C and refrigerator are the real power burners no one is turning those off very often.

If I do a longer flight (for me usually everything with flying at cruising altitude for more than about 30 minutes), I increase sim rate to 4x, to avoid the reload when going back to normal speed, and then I do something different, usually learning or reading, occasionally browsing the web, too, as soon as I reach cruising altitude. If available, I use the "pause at T/D" function, otherwise I guess the time required, and set an alarm for this point to monitor the aircraft's descent. But anyways, I usually keep my flights short, because the most interesting thing for me is the approach and landing, so I rather do two or three shorter flights than one long.

 

I wish there was that option someone else mentioned MS FLight has, to move the plane, say from T/C to T/D.

 

Flo

The power plant in Miami s a nuclear facility so damage to the environment is minimal

 

:LMAO: Yeah say that to the people in Fukushima...

 

I guess everyone have different opinions wether to fly realtime or speed up simrate, It's good we have a choice to do so or not so that makes everyone happy ^_^

 

EDIT: I see the mod came in, think this thread soon will die

EDIT: Guess it still lives on, but to me this discussion seems to fit more in the hangar chat, the OP hasn't even posted except when starting it. Probably really confused by the hot discussion he started :lol:

I remember attempting long haul flights back in the day on FS 4.0 with the Learjet and leaving it on overnight. The next morning FS was frozen more times that not! Was so annoying on my old Pentium! lol

 

I haven't attempted any long haul flights in FSX as of yet since since I'm mostly a GA guy.

 

Realtime is the way to go...i dun care if its only a sim!

I remember attempting long haul flights back in the day on FS 4.0 with the Learjet and leaving it on overnight. The next morning FS was frozen more times that not! Was so annoying on my old Pentium! lol

That must have been real frustrating lol

 

I'm mosly a GA guy too but sometimes I enjoy 12+ hour long hauls in my A2A Stratocruiser(Realtime) :rolleyes:

I'll make an attempt someday to have an "around the world trip" when i feel i the mood an have some sparetime B)

That must have been real frustrating lol

 

I'm mosly a GA guy too but sometimes I enjoy 12+ hour long hauls in my A2A Stratocruiser(Realtime) :rolleyes:

I'll make an attempt someday to have an "around the world trip" when i feel i the mood an have some sparetime B)

 

Yeah, the only down-side I see with this is your chip may not agree with you; so be kind and rewind.

I pretty much do all my flying on VATSIM so I listen/read ATC com's traffic, browse the net, make lunch/dinner, and or enjoy the view, especially if the weather isn't great and its cloudy with lightening.

Yeah, the only down-side I see with this is your chip may not agree with you; so be kind and rewind.

 

??? I you refer to CTD I don't have any issues with that, I can run FSX 24/7.

And if you mean my "brain" It maybe need some downclocking sometimes so It don't get overheated and shorten my life span :lol: