Longest continous flight.

[igorski]

Ever try flying from the US mainland to hawaii in a B-17 using only a compass for navigation and hoping that after 14 hours, you weren't a few degrees off, missing the island completely?

Now that is a reasonable challenge! I dont think i'd enjoy trying it, but it'd be an achievement to have managed it.

[PlutonianEmpire]

I just completed a 22 hour flight from buenos aires to Beijing china in the default 747, fully loaded.

(yes, i went to 16x timerate.)

When I taxiied to the gate, I still had 31% of fuel remaining.

[cspyro21]

My longest flight was a 5 hour trip, from EGLL to LIRF in a Howard 500 (all real time).

I aim to have a long and boring flight just so I can say that I've done it  
Cheers

P.S.

Ever try flying from the US mainland to hawaii in a B-17 using only a compass for navigation and hoping that after 14 hours, you weren't a few degrees off, missing the island completely?
     

I'm going to do that.  ;D

[Hai Perso Coyone?]

I have done a 16 Hour flight...real time...in FS...OMDB-KJFK A346...and a mighty fine flight it was...saw tons of different landscapes...awesome it was...I felt proud after the flight...

[Moach]

i've done some 10-12 hour flights in the PMDG 747... but i have to admit i did use time compression

but if you count the fact that my FS is always on a continuous flight (i always pick up where i left off), i may have logged thousands of hours on the same session already

Moach

[Nav]

The longest flight I've done so far was Melbourne-Heathrow eastbound in a B52 (that is, across the whole Pacific, the USA, and the North Atlantic nonstop). I was only aiming at RW in two hops so I landed at that point - but the B52 had plenty of fuel left, at a guess I could have gone on at least to Baghdad if I'd wanted to!

Years back I did some RW flights on FS98. Anyone who tried that will know that the sim only provided scenery and airport detail for certain parts of the world at that time, and you had VOR/NDB navigation aids only, no GPS! So you had to fly from sim-zone to sim-zone on pure 'dead reckoning', and just hope to pick up the signals when you got close to your destination!

For those that like a challenge, relying on VORs and not using the GPS can still be an interesting exercise - particularly finding remote islands in the Pacific! I still fly that way sometimes. The trick to finding small pinpoints by 'old-fashioned' means is to allow yourself the equivalent of the sunsights or starsights navigators used in the old days; basically use the map view to make sure that you're roughly on the latitude of a given point, tune to the frequency of the VOR you're looking for, then fly due east or west until you get within 100 miles or so, and the dial 'wakes up'!

Makes for some entertaining suspense - especially if you're operating at maximum range and running short of fuel, as I frequently am!

[BFMF]

I never fly with a GPS.

I only use my compass, sectionals, and my nav radios

Much more challenging then coupling the autopilot to the gps

[Staiduk]

My longest flight so far was approx. 8 hrs. in length; (realtime) in a default DC-3 from some Arctic base I can't remember right now, (Puvirnituq, possibly) down the coast of Hudson Bay to Moosonee.
I let George do most of the driving; but strong crosswinds and chop tend to overload the box so I had to keep my hand pretty close to the stick.

I'm gonna try that B-17 flight as well - just so long as there isn't a few squadrons of A6M's waiting for me when I get there.

[BFMF]

I'm gonna try that B-17 flight as well - just so long as there isn't a few squadrons of A6M's waiting for me when I get there.

Just watch your fuel. I landed with only a few gallons of fuel left

[beaky]

Ever try flying from the US mainland to hawaii in a B-17 using only a compass for navigation and hoping that after 14 hours, you weren't a few degrees off, missing the island completely?

Never did that, but I took the DC3 from the Galapagos to Christmas Island (SEOE-PLCH) using compass and clock only... over 3900 nm... naturally, i missed the island by about 100 miles (wasn't peeking at wind direction using shif+z, either, so I drifted)... also ran out of fuel despite having modified the model so it could carry 2800 gals. of fuel (didn't figure on headwinds so heavy).
There is an autopilot, but it's only slaved to the mag. compass. I did hit "D" every coupla hours, but that just simulated having what any RL pilot would have: time estimates on crossing magnetic variation 'lines'.
If I'd had a way to take star fixes, i might've done better... very tough to fly that far over water with absolutely no way to get a  fix for latitude...
I think California-to-Hawaii would be a snap in the B17;  (big target compared to Christmas Island!)
  ...got to try that sometime.

[Ivan]

With FS5 i flew around the world in a modded learjet that looked like a dc-9 from the outside hopping from map spot to map spot.

that meant: go to destination, remember position on map then go to departure and steer towards destination. At arrival, turn in the airport vor and find the airport to land

[BFMF]

I flew around the world a couple times in FS5 like that

[Rocket_Bird]

Ive flown a single leg once for 12 hours... due to lack of coffee, im never doing it again  ;D

[flyboy 28]

I can't sit for that long. Hurts my back. I think the longest flight I've done was about an hour. I like to save my retinas for when I need them.

[MattNW]

Just recenly I sailed Hama's Queen Mary 2 from Greece across the Med and through the Suez Canal to Australia. From Austrailia I went to Hawaii by way of Bora Bora in Hama's Mega Yacht. Somewhere around 15,000 miles at 25-30 kts. Now that's a long trip. Only was airborn twice when the QM2 ran low on fuel and started flying.  ;D

Of course most of that was spent letting the sim run. At those speeds and that much water between destinations I only needed to correct my course a couple times a day.