8 hours a week on Sunday with the MD-82. May change if we get a proper 777, 787, 747  or a A330.

Since 16OCT (47 days) I've completed 49 flights with an average of 02:17 of block time.

To this block time, I've to add about half an hour of flight planning.

So, I spend about 3hrs per day on average or about 20h per week for simming.

If I wasn't working 38,5h per week and if I had no gf, these numbers would be at least double that, no doubt.


MSFS and the PMDG 738 is just a joy to spend time with. I've had sundays with four legs right after each other.
Back in P3D, I was afraid of doing another flight without closing the sim first.

Three or four hours a week max. Even though I work from home full time now I don't generally fly during working hours.  

Around 10 hour a week for me, five of them I have to share with my 4 year old daughter wich suddenly took an intrest in flightsimming. She always ask me if we can fly, and reminds me we have to trim the plane before i handle her the controls:p

I am semi-retired now so I combine it with my other hobby, cycling. I could be out on the bike for several hours.

 

I like to Sim in the early evening, about a couple of hours...Although if England are playing that takes a back seat 🙂

Used to be around 1 to 2 hours a day for quite some time but recently it dropped down to around 1 or 2 flights a week... Must be some 2 to perhaps 3 hours a week tops. And I often do other things during cruise (on the pc) too. Yeah, interest is fading. Flew a bit too much, I think. It became boring work.

I'm a bit too busy with the real things at the moment: I just switched jobs from Menzies Aviation, to Star Handling (which used to be Stobart) so currently flight sims are on the back burner whilst I wrestles with the real aircraft and all the differences in procedures I have to follow. Having changed to working for a different service agent, and now as a Team Leader, I've had to spend the past few weeks doing a lot of training and recertifying on all the stuff you need for the job, but as of yesterday I am now signed off on most of that stuff. As noted, the trickiest part about making this switch is learning all the different procedures which different airlines have, such as the loading sequences for different bag classifications, different ID codes and so on, different arrival procedures etc. Star's TLs sometimes have to operate the Safedock and also have to operate the aircraft controls sometimes, whereas that's not normally the case at my former employer (i.e. even more responsibilities and training lol).

Menzies serviced B.A, Icelandair, Sun Express, Loganair, Emerald, Vueling, Iberia, Aurigny, Kuwait and Aer Lingus, whereas Star services S.A.S, Baltic, Air France, KLM, Brussels, Eurowings and Norwegian. The difference with all that mostly concerns Star typically doing faster turnarounds than is usually the case at Menzies (so I'm doing several 35 min spins now), and Star do not currently service any props or widebodies, so it's  just 737s, A320s, A220s, E195s and CRJs I now work on. Another difference is that most of Star's clients have bulk-loaded aircraft with only Air France A320s using containerised AKHs and PKCs, and another difference is I now have to start work at 04.30am, whereas it was typically 06.00am at Menzies (yawn).

I'll get back to simming when I'm more comfortable with my new role, but that's gonna be a few more weeks I reckon.

32 minutes ago, davenicoll said:

I am semi-retired now so I combine it with my other hobby, cycling. I could be out on the bike for several hours.

 

I like to Sim in the early evening, about a couple of hours...Although if England are playing that takes a back seat 🙂

Well Dave, we are in the knockout stages of the World Cup now so if England are in a penalty shootout, you’ll be back to simming in no time !😜

I currently have a total of 1,468 hours in MSFS and played 46 hours within the last two weeks.

It really depends. Working shift as a ground controller eats alot of time. But still i regularly come home late at night after a long day and do some hours of flying. Then there a periods where i don't fly that much. At the end of the day i'd say 1,5 - 2 hours a day statistically.

Best regards

Between 15 min and 1 hr at the end of the day, once or at most twice a week... Sometimes during weekend, maybe once a month, I can spend 02:00 hrs at the desktop testing MFS or XP... Sometimes I load Condorsoaring, maybe twice a year for a task that can last up to 2 hrs, but that's an exception.

I arrive home tired from work, live away from LPPT where I work, and feel really sleepy after a light dinner and most of the time not even in the mood to start the desktop 😕

I spend a LOT more of time in forums and exchanging messages with friend through WhatsApp 🙂

Long goes the time I got enjoyment from long haul flights in Aerowinx PSX or PMDG 744 for FSX... Or even tasks in Condorsoaring, or Air Combat in IL-2 Great Battles or DCS World ... No energy for such simming tiime these days.

The most puzzling situations take place, like not far from now, when I found myself several times trying to find a good justification not to go to the airfield for some RW soaring and instead stay at home playing IL-2 Great Battles. Also happened with War Thunder 🙂 and it's unique to those sims - never chose to stay at home playing MS FS//P3D/XP/PSX/Condor instead of going to fly my gliders for real... IL-2 had quite a Magic effect in me, and War Thunder too for a while ... Then I could spend 1hr everyday of the week 😕

Edited December 4, 20223 yr by jcomm

That really depends. I didn't fly for 3 days because i just didn't feel like it and yesterday i flew 11h with the A310 and right after landing, another 2h flight. It's totally random in my case.

7 hours ago, rob0203 said:

I play harpsichord and organ, specialized in early music / lot of Bach.

This weekend busy with performing Brandenburg 5 concerto / Bach and some cantatas with a baroque group in the north of the Netherlands.

YES!  Man oh man the Bach Brandenburg concertos are my all-time favorite music in life!  It must be very gratifying to play this as I’m just happy to listen to it.  Good for you sir.  And baroque too, my kind of music.  Sorry if off topic.

Being retired I can use it all day and night if I want to but I manage some quickie flights which I usually call “test flights” looking at the scenery of new airports I bought and always with an eye for making comics which I post at the Hangar Chat, (they wouldn’t let me post them here).  Lately it’s the 737, Honda Jet, and C310 flights from airport to airport in Alaska, California, and the UK.  I finally have the sim free of that wretched 60 second pause so it’s so nice to “fly” without these interruptions.

Edited December 4, 20223 yr by Jack_Sawyer

I perhaps mess about in the sim for an hour each evening.  I am out with my job 11 hours per day and stare at a computer screen all that time.  After driving home my eyes are so tired and the drone sounds of engines and thoughts of any sort of planned flight just leaves me wanting to sleep.  I do love the sim but tend to just casually use it.  Spend more time just glancing down through forums/groups on Avsim, Facebook etc