10 hours ago, Ricardo41 said:

To be honest, I wouldn't consider a flight with acceleration a long-haul flight.

In P3D I sometimes flew the Qualitywings 787 from Mahe to London. It's a 10 hour flight. I get up to cruise, then wait until asked to contact the next controller. At that point I set everything up and return to my PC about 8 hours later, hoping the whole thing hasn't crashed by then.

At the moment I have very little free time, so most of my flights are no longer than 90 minutes.

Fair point of view, of course leaving your PC to run the flight whilst you're away really isn't any sort of valid flight at all.

The only people that can take the high road are those that sit in front of the PC for the entire length of the flight at 1x.

If they manage a 10hr flight well done to them.

G

After I read a book written by a ferry pilot ("Ferry Pilot" by Mccauley Kerry) shortly, I started to refly the routes.

He flew single and twin engined aircraft from the US to Europe and Africa in the 80s and 90s, many of the flights with no GPS, some with no Autopilot. He flew more than 50 different types from Cessna 172 to Piper Aerostar, accumulating almost 10000 hours across the North Atlantic.

I don't use acceleration and I basically stay "in the cockpit", doing some other stuff than flying actively. That's what he did. However, I use the toilett rather than doing what he explains vividly in his book.

I did not yet fly an aircraft with no AP across the Atlantic, not sure if I do that. Maybe on the northern route in summer, touching Greenland and Iceland.

Karl

My seat time for a long haul is 2 hours max.
Anything after that I’m hitting the teleport options to the next destination.
Meanwhile in those 2 hours im admiring the outside scenery through the windows. Or using the eyepoint function to move around the seats/interior of aircraft(even sit as passenger if im on autopilot) or on discord or watching youtube inside of the cockpit.(VR virtual windows)

On 5/16/2021 at 7:16 AM, Farlis said:

 

In MSFS there is no decent long-haul aircraft yet available anyway.

 

There is now if you have premium deluxe with the 787.  The 787 Heavy mod experimental version makes it extremely usable with things like the WT flight plan manager, direct to, and even a managed simrate tool that automatically speeds up to 4x between waypoints etc.  Nothing can really do a skip still like the Toliss stuff in XP11 but it's definitely a good step forward.  With the way the 787 was the first few times I tried it after launch I gave up on it and assumed I was going to be waiting for the QW version but this is actually very usable.

The A320NEO with the FBW mod certainly should be good for TATL flights. Demonstrated with Vatsim here:

MSFS 2020 -Long Haul A320 | KJFK-EGLL | VATSIM & A320NX - YouTube

Here is another route:

MSFS 2020 - Long Haul Test Flight - A320 0.5.0 FlyByWire | VABB - FIMP - YouTube