I wouldn't even dare flying anything else other than 1x. Why fly then?

 

When it comes to flying...I love the actual hands-on flying part...not the sitting there staring at dials drinking coffee part...thats monotonous and boring. Thats why I prefer short haul flights - constantly busy with charts, talking to online ATC, etc etc then into descent, approach and landing. I'd go insane if I had to sit at my pc for hours on end doing nothing.

Don't sit then, i do all sorts of stuff when not planning/flying the plane (AKA cruise autopilot):

 

Read, TV, dishwashing, music, playing guitar (in my case), browse internet, study manuals, study stuff for your job...

Real time all the way as my VA does not permit any other sim rate.

I wouldn't even dare flying anything else other than 1x. Why fly then?

 

Agreed!

 

No point doing sim rate, takes away the magic of long haul,

 

We're at computers, multi task, do something productive [musical instruement], Browse the interwebs, do some workout, sit ups or something.!

 

Alex

Real time 100%.

 

Yesterday for example made a 10 hour flight with MD11. Take Off in the morning, had luch with inlaws, taking a peek fom time to time just to make sure all is ok and landed in the evening

I guess I have a different perspective flying low, slow things away from the sim. I can't get up and walk off in the planes I fly, and even worse (in some cases), I can't even get up to go to the bathroom. To be honest, in college, I'd put a plane up on a long haul to force me to get my coursework done. With the sim up, I wouldn't waste time browsing the internet, using AIM (slightly dating myself there), or anything else of that sort.

 

I still do it on weekends to force me to avoid updating my blog, checking Facebook, or anything else of the sort if I've decided to make it a lazy weekend and hang around the house.

 

Further still, I can't accelerate time when I fly outside of the sim, so I won't do it in the sim. I got really hard-lined with things one time during my PPL training. I was flying OKV-ROA-BCB-OKV for my solo round-robin, and on the cruise leg from BCB-OKV I remembered I needed to update the altimeter setting. I was feeling lazy, so my first inclination was to hit the B key, but then I remembered where I was. That was the end of my sim shortcuts/cheats.

in the past i hated doing long flights, didn't understand what's the point of wasting my time that way. now i am doing 3-5 when there's CTP i am crossing it because** i manage to find a perfect sulotion.

taking off getting into cruise, open my notebooks/ books, and starting to study for tests and things like that. i have to stay near the computer due to flying at vatsim. and now i can really use that time for both and not wasting it. regarding what Kyle said i have a small question, in the fmc on the perf page, when clicking twice on the ZFW it's automatically inserting the number. is it happening in real one to? otherwise i have been cheating to date without knowing(;

In real life you have to enter the actual ZFW, there's no magic going on in the real plane, no

I sometimes use 16X, depends on how bad I need a smoke.

 

Smoking at cruise altitude is totally permitted on long haul flights ;-)

 

I'm learning Hindi while flying my long hauls ;-)

Three children under the age of seven. That tells you right there! :Silly:

 

So you can only manage 10 hours then and not the full 14 hours? :lol:

In real life you have to enter the actual ZFW, there's no magic going on in the real plane, no

knew it! thanks mate. cheers.

Gotta go realtime. Never in my ~3 years of FSX have I EVER increased simrate. I honestly didn't know how until last month! (: Can't wait for the T7 because then I will actually do my work ^.^

With the 777 (hopefully) around the corner, my question is - do you or will you be flying the 777 in real time or sped up? If sped up, when and at what simrate?

 

I personally don't do RT flights >2 hrs because of RL commitments + the cost of electricity but thats just me, but it would be interesting to know.

 

Real-time gate, taxi, T/O and climb to cruise level, and maybe a little into cruise depending on the time I've got available.

Thereafter acceleration in cruise.

Real-time again 10-20nm before TOD and then until parked at the gate.

 

There's no way I'll be sitting through the typical 10-14h pure cruise of a 777 in real-time B)

I also cannot see the point of letting the computer run for those many hours while being away from it and doing other stuff or going to bed anyway. In contrast to the real thing, letting the computer run doesn't move any freight or people.

If you guys really keep up the pilot's duty in front of your monitor(s) for real-time cruise periods longer than 3h, I bow to that kind of devotion.

I like doing a long-haul overnight on a (rare) weekend where I haven't decided to go to the pub. Tend to cheat a bit by sleeping during bits of the cruise (maybe 2 hours at a time) until a step climb or fuel transfer is required. Or reading. Or possibly nipping down the pub for a swift pint or two. And definitely a sneaky fag is allowed during cruise!

 

Cheers

Rudy

just on that....what sort of short-haul routes are there for the 777?

 

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J Thomas YBBN

 

J Thomas and everyone,

 

This thread, "Big Planes, Little Routes" in the PMDG 777 forum will be of interest: It lists quite a few short-haul routes for 777s and other heavies.

 

http://forum.avsim.n...es-yes-you-can/

 

I not going to vote as it really depends on the situation. Sometimes I fly real time, others at accelerated time depending on what else I need to be doing.

 

Mike