WHAT'S THE LONGEST FLIGHT YOU'VE "SIMMED" IN REAL

The-GPS-Kid

.....in real time (not speeding up the sim).

..... Mine is HEATHROW, EGLL - MALE, MALDIVES

but I did sleep for 5 hours in the middle of it ! (Cancelled the IFR flight plan so that ATC wouldn't give me any grief, then resumed it later....

Also flew the 747 RFP from MANCHESTER - HONG KONG but I hadn't filled up on fuel and the plane came down only 130 nm from Hong Kong !!

(I was asleep at the time and my Force Feedback Joystick woke me up, wobbling all over the place as the plane crashed!)

Hoping to do HEATHROW - SYDNEY soon, across a weekend, with periods of sleep thrown in !
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Ohiosimmer · Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2004 3:04 pm Post subject:

I've done Hong Kong to Chicago........It was fun taking off and landing, but the rest was so boring, so if I do any long flights now I just speed up the sim.

Agus0404 · Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2004 4:45 pm Post subject:

Well, my longest flight without speeding up the sim was Heathrow to JFK.
It was my first flight in FS2004 with a big jet. I have a screenshot of my first flight inj the Screenshots Gallery. I remember I made that flight without autopilot. So every 30 minutes I checked the flight and turn the plane to the right position. I made that flight using my keyboard. Do you know what happened when I was approaching the airport? I crashed and I didn't make it to the runway. Crying or Very sad

Yesterday, I made a flight from Zurich, Switzerland to Lisbon, Portugal without speeding up the sim. Do you know what happened when I was approaching the airport? I landed safely. Laughing

OrlandoGeorge · Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2004 8:53 pm Post subject: Long Flights

Here is an example of a super long flight and the emergency landing that ensued. Flight was calculated from PHNL to KDEN x4 . That's Honolulu, Hawaii to Denver, Colorado USA. The issue of the emergency landing is apparent in the screenshot as you can see. NO FUEL. Also you will see that FS9 could not keep up with my emergency turning and decent as the alt. is stuck at over 6000!

Emergency landing made at KCAG which I found nearby. It was the only AP I could find in the area that had a long enough runway. Why this little airport that had general aviation AI taildraggers on the ramp and in the skies galore ever came equipped with a runway that can accomodate a B737 is beyond me. I'd imagine in real-world it could be used by Learjets or...? It was by the grace of god that it was there as It made a disaster in sim a different experience and pretty memorable one. Not ony that but I could have flown in sim for years and years and NEVER seen or visited this airport and now I have.

Keep on flying and keep seeing new and unexpected things in FS9!!

B737-200 PHNL to KDEN diverts to KCAG on emergency landing

Cancel IFR for emerg. broke up my route history
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Fire_Emblem_Master · Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2004 2:01 am Post subject:

I did a Atlanta to Rome, Rome to Hamburg, Hamburg to Heathrow, Heathrow to Atlanta once...Didn't sleep. I managed to listen to EVERY HEINO SONG I OWN TWICE...I have over 7 hours of Heino. I also read Salem's lot, and got about 5 chapters done in The Scarlet Letter! Shocked

ARD-DC · Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2004 9:26 am Post subject:

I probably am not gonna be able to do much of very long distance flights until I've got some holiday or something, my job keeps interrupting my spare time :/

I'm on a little roundtrip now, Amsterdam -> Munich -> Rome -> Athens -> Tel Aviv -> Baku -> Moscow -> Helsinki -> Oslo -> Amsterdam.

I'm at the moment slowing making my approach at Moscow (Airport UUEE, I could not possibly reproduce the name), but work-obligations forced me to break it up for a while, I didnt plan my time right - paused in mid-air Sad

Continuing tonight Cool

The-GPS-Kid · Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2004 12:55 pm Post subject:

Hey ARD, that's bizarre because I flew to a number of those places you've covered on your trip, on my BARON 58 tour (check out the Topic in the "Other" Forum....!

Started in Newcastle (EGNT), and flew to Oslo, then through Sweden and Finland, stopped off in St. Peterburg, then down through the Caucasus and I also stopped in Baku..... I then made 12 stops in Asia before reaching Oz.... (I'm still in Oz now but about to head off over the Pacific, towards New Caledonia).... I then plan to reach Hawaii by "island hopping" through the pacific ! I flew all this way in the BARON ! And all in real time...

What are you flying your tour in ?
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The GPS Kid is currently flying, exclusively:-

Level D 767-300ER

.... for First Choice, BA, and Delta

ARD-DC · Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2004 3:17 pm Post subject:

Think the word bizarre would more apply to your tour Surprised

How long is that entire trip taking you???
I do only fly realtime as well yeah, but I'm flying the 737 atm.

Found some cool KLM textures for it just today, so I'm gonna stop in Moscow (UUEE) for a bit and see if there is a hangar there that can do paintjobs, before continuing Wink

The-GPS-Kid · Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2004 4:52 pm Post subject:

By the time I get home to Newcastle, I expect the trip will have taken 4 months.... BUT.... that's not constant FS time... sometimes I leave the tour for a fortnight and do Airline simulation on the 737NG, 747RFP, A340 and little Dash 8 ...... But as much as I love procedural IFR Airline flying, theres something great about just picking a destination, taking off and managing your route VFR, concentrating on other things, like how to fly around the Himalaya, when you Baron stops climbing at 18000, and how to manage fuel etc...

When I finish this tour, my next challenge is that I plan to fly a Diamond HK36 (small Motorized Glider with top cruise speed of 101kts) from Newcastle up to the Arctic Circle, via Norway and Russia !
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The GPS Kid is currently flying, exclusively:-

Level D 767-300ER

.... for First Choice, BA, and Delta

OrlandoGeorge · Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2004 4:45 am Post subject: The Baron Tour

The famous Fly Away BARON 58 tour! Cool. That posting you did on the Baron tour is what inspired me to hang tough and make some hellishly long flights like Honolulu to Denver. It is r-o-u-g-h to do at times I swear I sometimes feel like quitting a hundred times while in the middle of nowhere at flt. level with hours to go. You all feel the same pain at times I am sure.

I have aborted many flights because of this as I am not the consumate VA person. Once I took off from KSFO and headed to Tokyo only to say .."What the hell am I doing?" -I am sure you all know that drill in terms of some flight, somewhere. Keep flying - keep trying!

P.S.-On another subject, what is a fortnight?

The MIGHTY Baron flying high!
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ARD-DC · Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2004 1:21 pm Post subject:

The-GPS-Kid · Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2004 3:46 pm Post subject:

Hey yes, that was the Northern Lights - I've read other postings on this and I'm looking forward to seeing this, may head up there tonight, in my RAF Tornedo (can get up there pretty quickly at Mach 2.0 !)... !
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The GPS Kid is currently flying, exclusively:-

Level D 767-300ER

.... for First Choice, BA, and Delta

ARD-DC · Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2004 3:59 pm Post subject:

If you see KL512 somewhat north-east of ULAA (If I'm not mistaken Very Happy

- at work now so can't check) don't forget to wave - that'd be me Very Happy

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KurtPStevens · Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 2:35 pm Post subject: B-52

I just flew a B-52 from Ellsworth AFB in S.Dakota to Anderson AFB on Guam non-stop. ( Played Diablo II on my laptop to pass the time Smile

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Maintain Thy Airspeed, Lest the Earth Should Rise Up and Smite Thee. Amen

The-GPS-Kid · Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 4:22 pm Post subject:

Hey Kurt - good to hear from you, it's been a while...

Sounds like a nice run out to Guam.... Bet you burned some fuel on that run, in the 52.... While you're around, pop down to Fiji - I'm there with the Baron !
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The GPS Kid is currently flying, exclusively:-

Level D 767-300ER

.... for First Choice, BA, and Delta

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