June 7, 20206 yr Check any of the Vatsim maps, especially during the week late at night and you will see someone on a long flight. Check their home airport, it it is after midnight their local time you almost bet they are fast asleep (yes, yes, I know the unattended 30 minute rule but all the supervisors are asleep as well!) Eric
June 7, 20206 yr On 6/5/2020 at 11:49 AM, PATCO LCH said: No. I use time compress, go sit outside and listen to the birds sing for a while then go back to see where I am. Not realistic but I like keeping my sessions to two or three hours. I do more domestic flying with ideally twenty to thirty minutes of cruise time. To me the approach and landing is the most fun part anyway. Sure, that's exactly how I fly too. European flights in particular make this easier. HowardMSI Mag B650 Tomahawk MB, Ryzen7-7800X3D CPU@5ghz, Arctic AIO II 360 cooler, Nvidia RTX4090 GPU, 32gb DDR5@6000Mhz, SSD/2Tb+SSD/500Gb+OS, Corsair 1000W PSU, LG Ultragear 48"4K, MFG Crosswinds, TQ6 Throttle, Fulcrum One YokeMy FlightSim YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@skyhigh776
June 7, 20206 yr 7 hours ago, B777ER said: Check any of the Vatsim maps, especially during the week late at night and you will see someone on a long flight. Check their home airport, it it is after midnight their local time you almost bet they are fast asleep (yes, yes, I know the unattended 30 minute rule but all the supervisors are asleep as well!) Someone said to me a few months ago, that they don't do the 'are you there Checks' anymore??? Edited June 7, 20206 yr by fluffyflops
June 7, 20206 yr 1 hour ago, fluffyflops said: Someone said to me a few months ago, that they don't do the 'are you there Checks' anymore??? They may not routinely ping pilots who are flying in an area where there is no active ATC. The problem occurs if the aircraft enters airspace with an active controller. If there is no response to the “please contact me on xxx.xx” within a reasonable amount of time, that’s when the user can find they have been forcefully disconnected, and put in the 24-hour penalty box. Jim BarrettLicensed Airframe & Powerplant Mechanic, Avionics, Electrical & Air Data Systems Specialist. Qualified on: Falcon 900, CRJ-200, Dornier 328-100, Hawker 850XP and 1000, Lear 35, 45, 55 and 60, Gulfstream IV and 550, Embraer 135, Beech Premiere and 400A, MD-80.
June 7, 20206 yr 11 hours ago, fluffyflops said: Someone said to me a few months ago, that they don't do the 'are you there Checks' anymore??? News to me. I've haven't been checked on in a while come to think of it. Maybe they have increased their bandwidth enough now that it really doesn't matter anymore? Eric
June 8, 20206 yr For those of you that do not want to sit for hours, there are little tools to position the aircraft at a specific position (e.g. waypoint, coordinate, navaid): P3D/FSX: QuantumLeap https://library.avsim.net/search.php?SearchTerm=quantum+leap&CatID=root&Go=Search Xplane 11: Position Aircraft http://www.xpluginsdk.org/position_aircraft.htm If you fly Vatsim or Ivao, first disconnect when making the leap! Cheers, Chris Regards, Chris -- PC: Intel 13900K, Gigabyte Geforce RTX 4090, 64GB Fury Beast DDR5 RAM; Display: Varjo Aero VR
June 8, 20206 yr I don't cheat, so no time compression for me. That said, I very rarely do long-hauls these days. In fact, the last one I did was on QW's 787 British Airways Seychelles to Heathrow. It's about a 10 hour flight. This was on FSX-Steam. Amazingly, I didn't run into to the dreaded 32-Bit OOM issue. Landed in Heathrow, with about 50 mb left, ha ha ha. If you like flying big iron, I remember several threads on Avsim about short to medium haul routes with the 747/777/787.
June 8, 20206 yr Long haul for me is Europe -US and I do sometimes use the FMC time compression depending on what time I have to complete the flight. Raymond Fry.
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