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whats your record for you longest flight

8hrs 32mins, stick time. No AP!
I was not well afterwards. My eyes looked terrible.

Ozzy

jeez man i would of probably put AP on after the first hour or so lol

Stick time-1.2hrs. AP-9.3hrs.
At the end of that 1.2 my eyes felt like they had sand in them,it was great though because it gave me a good opportunity to play with trimming the plane to get it to fly practically hands off. Still had to watch it though

about 7 or 8 hours whilst flying from Leuchars to Ali Al Salem (sp?) all at around 200 AGL hands on

Back when 98 was cool, I did a Newark to LAX and I also did a Newark to Tokyo...

Most of which was AP though, so I can't really count it, I suppose.

Heathrow to Orlando in the default 747, with a fuelling stop at Gander. Most of it was AP, but the most annoying thing was doing a go-around after all that. I did it all in two sittings - one from Heathrow to Gander, and then from Gander to Orlando Intl. Still took ages, though!

Even after flying on AP, the approach to Gander was late at night, poor visibility, snow coming down, and it was a visual approach.....!

I did New York to Paris in the An-225 a while back, I can't remember how long it took, can anyone calculate it for me. I just couldn't sleep, so I flew. The landing at Charles de Gaulle was a little heavy, but at 4 in the morning not too bad all things considered

Ozzy

PS. Why do you guys use AP? You might as well not fly!

I use AP so that my landings won't be so bad at 4am, and so that I can get up and talk to to the pretty flight attendants.....

Well, at the time, I had an FMC add-on for 98 that allowed me to program my entire route, then press execute.  This is how real world aviation is done by commercial pilots, and realism is what I sought.

Unfortunately, I've yet to find an add-on for 2K2 that does this...

The PSS Airbus has a perfectly designed FMC which will do absolutely everything, apart from taxiing. It's quite amazing what you can get away with on that.

But it's payware, unfortunately!

And its a Scarebus. LOL

This was actually a standalone application that could be used with all of your aircraft....I wish something like this were available for 2K2...

Brussels to Lima, Peru.

I'm a rookie only about 2 1/2 hrs if I'm there any longer  the wife starts up  . . . .  

5 hours on a helicopter at one time, close to that on other times, when I did a coast to coast trip with a helicopter -- no autopilot (I had alot of time on my hands then) it can be filed as --do only once per lifetime -- and it was an ordeal as it got near the end.  KSFO to KDCA with several stops along the way, and taking 4 months because I didn't do it everyday.