B737 From Italy, joined Aug 2000, 41 posts, RR: 0 Posted (12 years 1 month 2 days 16 hours ago) and read 2410 times:
Hello to everone
I read an article today that said "New York to Hong Kong done by UNITED AIRLINES made history as the longest Non-Stop flight, but to achieved this, the fuel tanks were full to the extreme,and the Autopilot was disengage (near the North Pole.)
My curiousity is,what was the benefits of disengaging the Autopilot?
Thanks a Million and
Best Regards
Terrence
GE From Singapore, joined Mar 2000, 320 posts, RR: 7 Reply 1, posted (12 years 1 month 2 days 14 hours ago) and read 2340 times:
Actually, disengaging the autopilot did nothing to the plane's range. They had to do so because the autopilot's GPS could not accurately tell directions at the north pole. Hope this helps!
Airbusluver From United States of America, joined Feb 2001, 155 posts, RR: 0 Reply 2, posted (12 years 1 month 2 days 12 hours ago) and read 2319 times:
Actually, the world's longest scheduled revenue flight is South African Airways from Johannesburg (South Africa) to JFK. It takes about 17 hours to complete on a 747-400. Sometimes, it can't make it all the way and they have to stop to refuel.
ContinentalEWR From United States of America, joined May 2000, 3762 posts, RR: 15 Reply 3, posted (12 years 1 month 2 days 11 hours ago) and read 2296 times:
Airbuslover, first Continental with its EWR-HKG launched March 1st and then the UA JFK-HKG flight have now displaced the South African flight as the world's longest.
Airbusluver From United States of America, joined Feb 2001, 155 posts, RR: 0 Reply 4, posted (12 years 1 month 2 days 10 hours ago) and read 2273 times:
I stand corrected. The distances as the crow flies:
New York-Johannesburg (7960 miles)
New York-Hong Kong (8090 miles)
Jet_lag From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 6, posted (12 years 1 month 2 days 9 hours ago) and read 2246 times:
I noticed that most of the time, airlines don't make use of a plane's full range. In fact,
most of the time they don't even come close. This is most notable on regional routes,
where, for example, NW doesn't fly any 727's farther than about 1000 miles, even
though the plane's range is well above 1500 miles. While on the other hand 744 has
8400 miles of range, and was flown almost all the way to HKG.
Mah4546 From Sweden, joined Jan 2001, 31116 posts, RR: 74 Reply 7, posted (12 years 1 month 2 days 8 hours ago) and read 2230 times:
CBA, ATL-CPT is non-stop, but CPT-ATL makes a stop at FLL. It used to be Cape Verde, but Miami is a huge South African market, so with a stop at FLL not only can the plane refuel to ATL, but it can also let off the many passengers terminating in Miami.
MEGAPTERA From United Kingdom, joined Apr 2001, 119 posts, RR: 0 Reply 10, posted (12 years 1 month 2 days 6 hours ago) and read 2168 times:
According to the great circle flight path display on www.chicago.com/airliners/gc.html the distances are as follows:
EWR-HKG 8065 miles
JFK-HKG 8071 miles
ATL-JNB 8431 miles
VH-BZF From Australia, joined Oct 1999, 781 posts, RR: 0 Reply 11, posted (12 years 1 month 2 days 1 hour ago) and read 2130 times:
So is this the official reason why UA have temporarily suspended the LAX-MEL non-stop service until next (northern) winter? Currently they are back flying UA841 ORD-LAX-AKL-MEL & v.v.
I understood that UA needed the modified B744's they were using for the LAX-MEL services to commence the JFK-HKG flights?
Can anyone confirm this?
Cheers - BZF
Ansett Australia - (was) One of the worlds great airlines!
Delta777-XXX From United States of America, joined Jun 2000, 1017 posts, RR: 8 Reply 13, posted (12 years 1 month 1 day 20 hours ago) and read 2092 times:
This was not a one time thing people! It's a scheduled flight!
United Airlines Flights 820 & 821! (non-stop both ways)
Their website says that it's 8067 miles.
UA820 leaves HKG at 5:05 pm and arrives at JFK at 8:35 pm. (local time)
UA821 leaves JFK at 10:50am and arrives at HKG the next day at 2:30 pm. (local time)
B737 From Italy, joined Aug 2000, 41 posts, RR: 0 Reply 15, posted (12 years 1 month 1 day 5 hours ago) and read 2071 times:
Thanks to everyone
For the replies especially to GE for clarifying the Autopilot misunderstanding.The crazy Media they always gets the facts the wrong way.
Best Regards and Thanks a Million
Terrence
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