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Whats the longest flight you ever had?

I put an AB A380 on a.p. and wnt to work last month, got around 12 1/2 hour flight. dont remember the settings.

Assuming you mean in FS, 13 hours 45 minutes

Wow, looks like 4-8 is winning.

I replicated my flight to france that I am taking this month (Toronto->Montreal->London->Paris) It was arond 8.5 hours, I sped up the simrate over the atlantic, and flew everything over land on normal speed. It was flown in an opensky 767, unlimited fuels ^_^

2-4 hours im sorta a regional pilot

Longest flight in FS? I've done several 10-16 hour flights, all real time and in front of my computer...

1-2 in fs and 30-60 in real life, working with mintor right now

2.5 hours chasing the sun East to west in a Blackbird

Real-life:
Flying myself, 6.5 hours

As pax in airliner up to 23 hours way to many times. (flight time)

Slightly over two hours in a Delta MD-88 from KSFO to DEN.

Flight Simulator: 7.2 hours, Howard 500 from the Solomon Islands to Wake Island.

Real life: My longest round trip in the air (1998) covered 51 hours and 59 minutes. The route was Houston, Honolulu, Guam, Bali, Darwin, Cairns, Townsville, Brisbane, Bali, Guam, Honolulu, and Houston. Flew in everything imaginable including a BAE 146 and a Shorts 360.

I'm just curious too.  Why on earth would you spend 16hrs in front of a computer screen sitting on an office chair watching the sea go by.  The professionals carry two crews.  Its also why you can change the sim rate as well - masochism is a personal thing I guess.

Real world, as a pax in an A340 Sydney to Buenos Aires and later Sydney to Johannesburg.  

Sorry to big note myself, both times Business Class, comfortable sleeper chairs, great wine, and an occasional check on the inbuilt GPS - with a good long sleep.

To do it at home seems to me just a bit too much,.

Yes but most of us have wives families and jobs.  

Also flightsimming is cheating isn't it?  

Its only in a real aeroplane that you are flying. The real time that spend up in the air, burns real fuel, involves real weather, needs a real takeoff and landing, and puts your real heart in your mouth or gives that same heart a lift from the sheer beauty and pleasure of it all.  I can't afford a motion sim, so my office chair doesn't pull any Gs, and doesn't bounce me in turbulence which can drive your backside into the seat, or your head against the cabin roof when its for real.  

Everything else is make-believe:  deeply satisfying, fun, educational, but not real.  So 16hours is not real - because not even real pilots do that, they have relief crews.

But if its fun, do what you like in the privacy of your home.  

Me I do like to do two to three hour flights on the sim, without speeding them up, and where it is VFR I follow the official topo charts and enjoy the closest thing to the real world.  I also use real weather through ActiveX so I can't dodge that either. And for small planes that don't have GPS then I don't use it - VOR and  NDB are a challenge in themselves.

Speeding up the time and not sitting at the controls is cheating.

I can understand that philosophy, and I like to stick by it.

However, I can't understand why you'd want to sit there flying over nothing for the entire duration of your waking hours! On autopilot too... :-?

Oh well, each to their own...

It's how you make it challenging that makes it fun. Yes, a 14 hour flight over the ocean does sound boring, but say you fly a B-17 from San Francisco to Hawaii, without using a GPS or the built in map to tell where you are. That was probably the most stressfull flight i've ever done. Thankfullly, I didn't miss the islands, and I landed with around 20 minutes of fuel left....

But since i've been growing up, I don't have time for those 10+ hour flights anymore, and if I were to do another long flight, I would still fly real time, while sitting at my computer, but It would probably take me a couple days of saving it, and continuing it on my free time.

And when I look at my logbook and see that I have X amount of hours, I can say, "It's all real time, while sitting in front of my computer". I suspect a lot of people don't mention when they say they've got so many thousands of hours logged on the flightsim if it's real time, or whatever....