Russell Irwin wrote:A friend of mine recently challenged me to find the longest flight a commercial aircraft could fly while making only one revolution around the earth and maintaining a constant latitude (the math is tons of fun, but suffice it to say that it can be done from Murmansk in a 777-200LR). So my question is, how does FSX (and autopilots) respond to flights that maintain the same latitude and true-north heading, but not the same magnetic north heading? Also, is there a way for me to file an IFR flight plan using the default FSX flight planner?
As for using the default flight planner for IFR flight Plans all you have to do is check the IFR box than use the High altitude flight plans. Notice that the FSX flight planner does not use SIDS or STARS nor does it give you a option to do so.
I use a free flight planner when planing a more detailed flight plan that will use SIDS and STARS here is the link
http://rfinder.asalink.net/free/this will allow you to use a more realistic altitude as well as there are assigned altitudes in the real world
You can also find real world flight plans if you know where to look. Just remember Google is your friend.
I have never noticed any problems while maintaining a given latitude if your plane has a working FMC it will be easier to do this
I have made several trips around the world in both FS9 and FSX and in one such trip I tried to make the legs as short as possible none of those 10 hour plus legs if I could avoid it. I even landed in the ocean once or twice using a float plane mind you. This made the trip more of a challenge finding a place to land a float plane than be able to fly the same plane to a island where i could change aircraft. I had to do a lot of research for that trip.
by Russell Irwin » Mon Oct 28, 2013 7:05 pm 
