13 minutes ago, micstatic said:

You don’t have to. Never really understood why people are locked down and only willing to fly real world flights operate day present day. Any flight that can be flown in a 737 can also be flown in a 777. 

It's part of A Pilot's Life, choosing short and/or medium and/or long range flights.  But you can choose any combination so have good control from which schedules are created from, based on RW routes.  Sometimes I do short-medium schedule and when I have something longer I just run the sim at 2 to 4x as needed.

35 minutes ago, jpe828 said:

I have a question for a self proclaimed "Heavy" lover. I like the 737 because I can do a 30 minute hop, or a 5 hour hop. In a Heavy, I feel like you have to do long hauls. Why is that enjoyable? Do you leave the PC running? What makes it fun? Genuinely curious, maybe I will change my mind. 

The beauty of flight simulation is that you can do what YOU want to do.

I'm banking on the PMDG 777 being the first good heavy available and when it comes you could always do long hall flights but use the accelerated sim rate function to speed it up to somehting more agreeable.

Edited January 14, 20233 yr by Jazz

I have not done much long-haul flying since my P3D days and then I used to do the long cargo flights in the 747 -- Singapore-Chicago; Dubai-Los Angeles. I really enjoyed the planning, researching and planning through the oceanic tracks and found it very fulfilling to land after 10 to 15 hours flying. I usually would set up in the morning and fly throughout the day; working while the simulator ran on my other monitor. 

Very happy with the A310 and eagerly awaiting the MD-11 and 767. All the rest is just white noise 😛

1 hour ago, jpe828 said:

I have a question for a self proclaimed "Heavy" lover. I like the 737 because I can do a 30 minute hop, or a 5 hour hop. In a Heavy, I feel like you have to do long hauls. Why is that enjoyable? Do you leave the PC running? What makes it fun? Genuinely curious, maybe I will change my mind. 

I also don't have the time for flights longer then 3 hours, but I also love to fly the heavies.  I usually will use time compression during the cruise if I'm flying a longer route. Makes 4 hour cruise to 1 hour.  

Also as others have said, nothing stopping you from doing short haul fights in a heavy.  It also does happen in real life. I once had my flight cancelled, A321 from Montreal to Toronto. A 1 hour flight and the 2nd later flight, also a A321 was full.  So Air Canada cancelled the second A321 and few both fights on a B777-300 to Toronto. I have to say, I was quite happy as an aviation enthusiast to fly on a T7 for an hour.

1 hour ago, Mace said:

In Japan they flew 747's on short haul routes, like Tokyo to Osaka.

And as micstatic said, there's no prohibition against flying really short routes in heavies.

United flies lots of short haul 777 flights

1 hour ago, Mace said:

In Japan they flew 747's on short haul routes, like Tokyo to Osaka.

And as micstatic said, there's no prohibition against flying really short routes in heavies.

Was that the 747-400D? 

1 hour ago, Mace said:

In Japan they flew 747's on short haul routes, like Tokyo to Osaka.

And as micstatic said, there's no prohibition against flying really short routes in heavies.

Was that the 747-400D? 

1 hour ago, Noel said:

It's part of A Pilot's Life, choosing short and/or medium and/or long range flights.  But you can choose any combination so have good control from which schedules are created from, based on RW routes.  Sometimes I do short-medium schedule and when I have something longer I just run the sim at 2 to 4x as needed.

True. I’m not sure if that many people use a pilots life. Maybe they do. But it’s testament to my main point. A simulator is meant to be used how the individual wants to. We can all agree on that 

1 hour ago, Noel said:

I'm loathing migrating to Airbus so this may help me postpone that move even more!

The A310 is the least Airbus you may ever find for FS (until someone releases the old A300 B4-200). It's actually closer to the 757 and 767. I mean, it does even have yokes!

3 hours ago, micstatic said:

The a310 and it’s already here 

Thats not a long hauler (12+hrs) and really don't fly much anymore. But thanks MS/Asobo anyways giving us a freebie by Inibuilds work. Fix the 787 premium and I may actually upgrade.

Edited January 14, 20233 yr by jbdbow1970

5 minutes ago, jbdbow1970 said:

Thats not a long hauler (12+hrs) and really don't fly much anymore. But thanks MS/Asobo anyways. Fix the 787 premium and I may actually upgrade.

Long-haul is generally considered to be 7hrs or over in my experience

Just now, Jazz said:

Long-haul is generally considered to be 7hrs or over in my experience

Try to fly from Los Angeles to Sydney (15hrs) in 7 hrs over water. No plane in MSFS can do that properly current that's the point.

Just now, jbdbow1970 said:

Try to fly from Los Angeles to Sydney (15hrs) in 7 hrs over water. No plane in MSFS can do that properly current that's the point.

Sure, I agree. But 12+ hrs isn't the generally accepted definition of a long haul flight is all I was pointing out. Although the term is malleable. It once took me the best part of 10 hours to fly from the UK to Cuba and It took less than 7 to get back. They were both very defintiely long haul flights according to my dead legs, trapped wind and general sense of exhaustion with other people. A far more accurate measure of such a flight in my opinion 😉

7 hours ago, jbdbow1970 said:

Try to fly from Los Angeles to Sydney (15hrs) in 7 hrs over water. No plane in MSFS can do that properly current that's the point.

The point is the a310 is a long haul plane even if it doesn’t meet your personal standard. I suspect the term you are thinking of is ultra long haul