What about ATC handing you off from centre to centre? Is it only the stock FSX:SE ATC which does that? (A workaround is to accept the first handoff, but do not contact the next centre).

 

 

The problem with these flights is that you run out of apartment space to clean and meals to cook after about three hours.

 

Hahaha, so true!!!

My longest flight was Honolulu to Cape Town, South Africa (PHNL-FACT).  10,000nm in the Alphasim B-1B.  I can't remember how long it took, but cruise speed was around M0.98

 

 

 

Did anyone ever try a pilot shift's worth of short hops in a single session, i.e. eight (or ten?) hours of 200-500 nm routes?

 

A few times I've done a day's worth of SFO-LAX circuits in the NGX starting at 7am and lasting until about 9pm.  Each flight is about 1h30m and with a turn time of 1h you can do 3 round trips (6 total flights) in the day.  Great fun!  Never gets old, as long as I'm in the pilot seat!  As a passenger, it certainly wouldn't be as much fun

JFK to Cairo, leave at 9 p.m., go to sleep and see the Pyramids on approach in the morning--my time.

 

3,900 miles (eer nm?).

 

maybe sometime, would like to try New York airport to PHNL as it's similar length.

Atlanta, GA USA to Johannesburg SA in the PSS B777-200LR (FS9, sorry, not FSX).  16+ hours.

 

Back story is I work for three bosses who own the company.  Two of them arranged an African Safari and hunting trip in South Africa.  One was afraid the plane would run out of fuel.

 

They all knew about my flight simming addiction and wanted to know how accurate the sim was.  I told them with a good payware and real world weather from Active Sky Evolution it was pretty close to "real".

 

They gave me the next day off...with pay...and I flew non-stop using the previous day's real world flight plan (Delta Airlines).  Made it there with lot's of fuel to spare and reported back to my bosses.  They were pleased.

 

Neither will ever do that flight again...16 hours on a plane, even a huge B777, is too much and, according to them, fatiguing.

 

Randy

I have done that flight a few times in real life with Delta (passenger), the trip out from Johannesburg is usually longer than the inbound to Johannesburg due to winds. Last flight I did was almost exactly 17 hours flight time. Add to that about 30 minutes before departure for boarding and a similar amount on arrival and we were on the aircraft for very nearly 18 hours. By the time you are half way through the flight, already sick of watching inflight movies! Add to that the huge time difference which can really whack you - need an entire day or two just to recover. As far as I know, it is one of the longest currently active scheduled flights operating in the world right now.

IAD-OMDB 13HR 777.

Santiago - Sydney in the 77L, sometime last year. Clocked in somewhere between 17-18 hrs. There was a huge (100-150 kts), unexpected headwind over much of the ocean, almost twice what PFPX planned for. I suspected something might have messed up in ASN, but ASN restarts didn't change anything.

 

Thought about diverting to Auckland for fuel, but threw the realism card out the window and chugged on. Still had about 9 tons of fuel remaining upon arrival.

I flew KATL - FACT and return to simulate a RW Delta flight.  777L.

Ok  gather  that   your  allowed  to   walk  away   from the pc  whilst  doing  these  long  flights(unless  your  using  fs2crew)   and  if  you  do  who is  flying  the plane   since  I believe  its  a requirement  to  have  at least 1  pilot  in the cockpit  whilst  the other  goes  for  a  break   so  you all breaking  all the rules  here :Shame On You:

Ok  gather  that   your  allowed  to   walk  away   from the pc  whilst  doing  these  long  flights(unless  your  using  fs2crew)   and  if  you  do  who is  flying  the plane   since  I believe  its  a requirement  to  have  at least 1  pilot  in the cockpit  whilst  the other  goes  for  a  break   so  you all breaking  all the rules  here :Shame On You:

What?  You don't have a small coffee maker and a "relief tube' attached to your desk? :wink:

What? You don't have a small coffee maker and a "relief tube' attached to your desk

 

err   is  that a p3d  or  fsx  coffee  maker

A few times I've done a day's worth of SFO-LAX circuits in the NGX starting at 7am and lasting until about 9pm.  Each flight is about 1h30m and with a turn time of 1h you can do 3 round trips (6 total flights) in the day.  Great fun!  Never gets old, as long as I'm in the pilot seat!  As a passenger, it certainly wouldn't be as much fun

 

With changing weather and all the AI coming and going, this sounds actually a bit like fun. Too bad that any ATC provider isn't too keen on providing holds, otherwise the rush hour arrivals would be very interesting.

 

(Admit it: Most of the fun was programming the FMC and adapting the flight plan to changing circumstances. )

 

 

(Admit it: Most of the fun was programming the FMC and adapting the flight plan to changing circumstances. )

 

For my SFO-LAX circuits, I followed several flights using liveatc and wrote down all the ATC instructions so that when I flew them I could "mimic" the same procedures in the sim.  One day I'll actually try this out on vatsim!  LAX Arrivals from the north are typically given the SADDE arrival and visual to 24R.  The runway is 8926 ft, but you'll want to exit on taxiway Z which is about halfway down the runway.  That means you really have to stick the landing or you'll be in for a long taxi!

For my SFO-LAX circuits, I followed several flights using liveatc and wrote down all the ATC instructions so that when I flew them I could "mimic" the same procedures in the sim.  One day I'll actually try this out on vatsim!  LAX Arrivals from the north are typically given the SADDE arrival and visual to 24R.  The runway is 8926 ft, but you'll want to exit on taxiway Z which is about halfway down the runway.  That means you really have to stick the landing or you'll be in for a long taxi!

 

That's dedication. Kudos!

Mine was about 15.5 Hours: Just look at my pirep (Fully online).

https://www.deltava.org/pirep.do?id=0xf1e66