Longest real time flight in a year

[John_Cillis 2,406]

I flew my Carenado Citation 550 from SFO to JFK, just touched down at JFK.  It was my longest real time flight in quite some time.  A testament to P3DV4.5's stability on a system of my specs, to complete a flight like that without a CTD.  One thing which helped me is unplugging my SSD drive from my USB 3.0 slot and plugging it back in to a USB 2.x slot, my SSD drive seems happier with a 2.x slot, given my system specs.  Who knew?  I still think my SSD drive, about a month old now, is the biggest blessing to P3D since the proggie, content and scenery, plus my MSE photo scenery, is all loaded up on it which makes for faster everything, and more fluid everything, now that SSD drives are dirt cheap compared to what they used to be.

John

[pracines 823]

Agreed on the stability, I have been doing routine, up to 16 hour flights without even a stutter.

[pete_auau 1,159]

don't  know if I  could  do  that.  wouldn't  have  enough time  for  sleep

[somiller 694]

I don't do long flights, but I'm finding v4.5 to be rock-solid...rarely ever have a crash. Crosses fingers.

Kind Regards,

[GSalden 4,657]

I agree. 4.5 is super stable. Here I am doing flights up to 4h without any issues 😎

[Patco Lch 1,465]

Firmly agree with all the above. It took years but I feel I have the sim I was always wanting in P3DV4.5. That's why I didn't get so excited over the recent announcement from Microsoft. Maybe after I see it and read some user reports.

[IanHarrison 522]

6 hours ago, pete_auau said:

don't  know if I  could  do  that.  wouldn't  have  enough time  for  sleep

I let it fly itself, using Radar Contact 4, then it pauses at 175nm from destination and waits for me to wake up and land it!

[ols500 43]

I regularly do flights up to 16 hours but just sleep through most of it and turn my monitor off lol

Edited August 2, 2019 by ols500

[captain_adf 16]

You're all going to laugh but this week I made an 18.5h flight from Vienna to Sydney in the 748.  8900nm.  Why? Well I had a customer who absolutely positively needed to get 20t of cargo from LOWW to YSSY, no time for a fuel stop.  And I wanted to see what the freighter could do with full tanks. Fortunately the winds were favorable, I landed with an ample 12t of fuel.  Probably could have made it to Auckland!

All flown without time compression... Took off before going to bed, woke up and checked the fuel burn, went to work, came home and was just approaching the west coast of Australia.

With a fuel to payload ratio of nearly 9 to 1, it's probably not a very profitable route, but I made sure to charge a hefty premium for overnight delivery halfway around the world!

[Patco Lch 1,465]

3 hours ago, captain_adf said:

You're all going to laugh but this week I made an 18.5h flight from Vienna to Sydney in the 748.  8900nm.  Why? Well I had a customer who absolutely positively needed to get 20t of cargo from LOWW to YSSY, no time for a fuel stop.  And I wanted to see what the freighter could do with full tanks. Fortunately the winds were favorable, I landed with an ample 12t of fuel.  Probably could have made it to Auckland!

All flown without time compression... Took off before going to bed, woke up and checked the fuel burn, went to work, came home and was just approaching the west coast of Australia.

With a fuel to payload ratio of nearly 9 to 1, it's probably not a very profitable route, but I made sure to charge a hefty premium for overnight delivery halfway around the world!

PMDG Wood Pigeons right? They're in high demand all over the globe.  

[downscc 1,327]

3 hours ago, captain_adf said:

All flown without time compression...

Whoa!  One time I tried to plan a flight such that I could go to bed and wake up for the arrival, but we had a power failure that night LOL.  I'm good for up to 6 hr unaccelerated but beyond that I use x4 and the PMDG pause 10 nm before TOD.  My longest flight in the logbook is a FEDEX B77L KMEM VTBS nonstop, they actually fly this route (or used to before ZGGG) but stop at PANC.  That was logged as 20.8 hr (which of course is the time logged by the simulator that approximates block time not flight time).