Your Longest Flight In Fs2004

Espion007 · Wed Oct 27, 2004 8:47 am

Whats the longest flight you have done in Fs2004(or fs2002)?and by flight i mean it took off,flew,and landed(successfully)

a few days ago i did a flight from CDG to tahiti island with a 7E7 (dont like boeing much but i fell in love with the a/c). the flight was 8480nm long, and took 18 hours. i started at 9:30pm, climbed to cruise, fell to sleep,woke up the next morning, and went to school and back at 4pm to start descent into tahiti and land.

as i type im climbing the 7E7 to 40,000 ft on a LON-SYD flight(with a tiny payload of course!). god forbid i F this up........

AmericanAirFan · Wed Oct 27, 2004 9:44 am

Longest flight for me was from 3 to 3 and a half hours due to the fact it was 3 AM in the morning it was an American Airlines MD-80 doing SJC-AUS thats about 1500 miles longest flight while staying awake is probably a 757 PHX-SJC about 400 miles and it took 45 minutes and I did the concorde from hawaii to japan dont remember the time or distance but I did it. Big thumbs up

-AmericanAirFan

flymia · Wed Oct 27, 2004 10:53 am

My longest while atleast having someone in the cockpit was LAX-AKL. I have a few friends that fly with me. So on that flight he was the FO. Also have done MIA-NRT woke up at 5:30am and took off. Went to summer school went to the gym and than around 8:00pm I landed. I should have been 6pm but I had plans so i slowed the plane down. Also did HGK-TLV with two FO's.
Longest flight alone for me in the flight deck whole flight no sleep would be MIA-DEN.
Next trip with my to FO's well actully one is a 777 Captain is JFK-MIA 777. MIA-Lagos Nigeria-JNB in 747-200.

DeskPilot · Wed Oct 27, 2004 11:47 am

Mine was Melbourne Australiam (YMML) to Singapore in a B777 on FS2004. Then from Singapore to Heathrow, but had to divert to Belgium due to being low on fuel Smile

kcrwflyer · Wed Oct 27, 2004 1:16 pm

i flew a citation jet CRW-NRT. Full fuel tank. Used 6,000 ft. to get off ground.

airxliban · Wed Oct 27, 2004 1:26 pm

I downloaded an MEA 747, flew BEY to JFK.

Made the announcement in English, French and Arabic.

My mom came upstairs to the computer room and served me some pistachios, a drink and dinner.

Then I set the GPS to JFK and fell asleep.

When I woke up 10 hours later, I had crashed!

mighluss · Wed Oct 27, 2004 4:26 pm

Yesterday I took a 747 from Sevilla (Spain) to Hamilton (NZ) inspired by this topic:

https://www.airliners.net/discussions/aviation_polls/read.main/25768/

It took some 12000 nm, and almost 24h. to do it. Cruising initialy al 33000ft. then 39000ft, and finally (most of the flight) at 43000ft. Speed M0.84... and arrived with some 40000lb. of fuel left. Of course, I did it with only fuel... no payload!

ZKSUJ · Wed Oct 27, 2004 5:24 pm

Mighluss-Hamilton can just cope with a 767 in real life, a 747???

My ones would be something like AKL-LAX-AKL, or SIN-ZRH or SIN-MAN

mighluss · Wed Oct 27, 2004 5:34 pm

Well... was a VERY light 747, without payload, and the "low fuel" blinking in the screen! I used all the rwy. on landing, but just because I floated too much in the flare. jejeje... full flaps, approach speed 145Kts. Autobrake 2...lots of fun!

In FS you can even try landing it at Meigs! Smile

ZKSUJ · Wed Oct 27, 2004 6:25 pm

Hahah, you've got a point there. Big grin

draigonair · Wed Oct 27, 2004 6:29 pm

13 hours :P Amsterdam - Singapore (and sometimes back) take off at night, go to bed and land the next day Smile

!! always works!!!

cheeeeeers!

Nick

OB1504 · Wed Oct 27, 2004 8:57 pm

7.9 hours, or around 07:54. I flew a Japan Airlines Boeing 777-247(ER), JA707J to be exact, from Delhi, India to Tokyo (Narita), Japan. I was awake for the entire flight. Smile

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CPH-R · Wed Oct 27, 2004 9:01 pm

MUC-LAX & return
MUC-HKG (no return flight as of yet)

In FS2002, when I still had PSS' B744 panel, it was LHR-SIN-SYD. Talk about being wasted upon arrival at SIN (I'd fly the first 4-5 hours in cockpit, nap another 4-5 hours and then do the arrival & landing).

AmericanAirFan · Wed Oct 27, 2004 9:03 pm

When I woke up from my flight AUS-SJC I was circleing at 30,000 ft over AUS. and the concorde from Hawaii to Japan wasnt to succsefful cause I ran out of fuel 300 nm off the coast!! but I set the fuel back up. Concordes in real life cant go from Hawaii to Japan there not fuel efficient enough. Big thumbs up

-AmericanAirFan

tavong · Wed Oct 27, 2004 11:08 pm

Honololu-JFK 15 hours

with the defunct Clipper Airways Sad

Gus
SKBO

A3204eva · Thu Oct 28, 2004 12:04 am

EGLL-YSSY B744 on VATSIM.

Departed 0530 and there was actually pilots already at LHR!

A320

rossyboy · Thu Oct 28, 2004 12:15 am

Going to sleep and let the aircraft fly itself? Sounds like very responsible pilots... Laugh out loud

Espion007 · Thu Oct 28, 2004 3:59 am

Going to sleep and let the aircraft fly itself? Sounds like very responsible pilots...

praise the lord for Nav hold Big thumbs up

drerx7 · Thu Oct 28, 2004 4:26 am

LAX-SYD--of course I go to sleep-wake up run errands and then land.

ZKSUJ · Thu Oct 28, 2004 5:19 am

"Going to sleep and let the aircraft fly itself? Sounds like very responsible pilots..."
I know about NAV hold, but how do you change the ATC stations and frequencies?

clrd2go · Thu Oct 28, 2004 5:25 am

You get to your altitude, await a frequency change instruction, dial in the
freq, but DON'T CONTACT THEM, until you're near your destination or TOD point. Once you contact them you'll get caught up and be with the right
controller.

Jim

FlyingColours · Thu Oct 28, 2004 5:33 am

I had a lot of very long flights on FS2000 but with FS9 you need to sit with it to change frequencies (as SUJ pointed out above).

In FS2000 I did,

MAN-SEA
SEA-SYD (Landed with only 200 Gal left in the 744 - It had to be perfect or that would have been goodnight Vienna)
SYD-Beijing
Beijing-MAN

(All in the space of 3 days.....)

FS2004 though you need to babysit so it can get quite laboroious,

I did AMS-SXM, LAX-NRT, NRT-SIN, KUL-Cairo (All were legs on an RTW trip with lots of other legs included).

My longest flight ever would be 14.5hrs on the 747-400 (SEA-SYD). That was my first RTW trip and it was dull since I only stopped to fuel it up, my last trip was fun enough because I visited lots of new places.

If I am given the chance I will be taking a flight MAN-HKG not sure what equipment though, maybe the DC-10 - if it could do it.

Enjoy Life!

Phil
FlyingColours

AA300B · Thu Oct 28, 2004 7:16 am

My longest flight was a 7 hour flight from SJU to LAX on a Midway 737-700.
Departed SJU at 12 AM and landed at 6 AM.

sw733 · Thu Oct 28, 2004 7:50 am

Not on 2004, because I dont have it, but back when I played 2002 and was still in high school, I would fall asleep after takeoff and wake up and land before I went to school. Just regular overnight flights like ORD - LHR, NRT - ORD, etc.

SkyWestFan · Thu Oct 28, 2004 8:49 am

NZ55 Air New Zealand

767-300ER by IFDG

Depart KLAX (Simflyers Scenery) at 8:45pm

Arrive NFFN Nadi Fiji (Bill Melichar scenery) 6:08am

14hrs 42min (I was a little late)

as well as:

NZ50 Air New Zealand

767-300ER by IFDG

Depart NFFN at 1025pm

Arrive KLAX at 4:15pm

12hrs 50min

I make those flights maybe once a week! Thats the length that I can handle...nothing more...

SW

B727-200 · Thu Oct 28, 2004 10:05 am

My first attempt at a true Long Haul flight ended in tragedy. I was taking a UA B744 SYD-SFO when it all went pear-shaped on descent into SFO.

Unlike some of you imposters above, I did the flight in real time, only leaving the controls for food, drink and toilet stops. I believe that this length of time at the controls (around 12 hours if I remember correctly) was what caused the crash.

I was in controlled airspace and being vectored to final when I lost a huge amount of airspeed and altitude, which I could not recover from, and ended ploughing into the hills to the SSW of the airport. My own accident investigation suspects that when requested to "turn left to 090 degrees", I was so tired that I reduced the speed to 90knts by accident Nuts

I have since flown the LAX-MEL leg on a QF B744, and SIN-LAX leg on a SQ A345 in real time with better success.

B727-200.

FlyingColours · Thu Oct 28, 2004 8:12 pm

Just to ask a question here myself following on from B727-200's post above, what is your longest time at the controls (in real time).

I ONLY fly realtime and rarley leave the controls which is why it is even harder now since all I can do is excersize infront of FS (Hey a 12 hour work out seems good), read, listen to music or just tinker endlessly with the flight.

Enjoy Life!

Phil
FlyingColours

trekster · Thu Oct 28, 2004 8:18 pm

i have done lots of VERY long flights in 2002, i flew round the world once, did not sleep for nearly 2 days, though i was ill at the time as well, so could not sleep. what better thing to do. Was stupid and used a 321 from LAX to HNL, just made it off the runway when the engines died. Had to stay high for the last bit just in case they went dead and i could glide in. Was a nice feeling thinking i had flown round the world. Strange or what.

Last long flight was SIN to MAN, Got it going before i left for work, and even managed to get home, go out and get dinner, then come back and get ready for the landing.

rossyboy · Fri Oct 29, 2004 3:12 am

But if you went to sleep, wouldn't you lose the IFR because if you don't respond to ATC after 3 or 4 messages, they cancel IFR. Someone correct me if I'm wrong? ?:-l

Santhosh · Fri Oct 29, 2004 3:34 am

In Sabena Virtual Airlines.They used to have a flight from Brussels National EBBR to Tokyo Narita RJAA.My longest flight after I started using FS2004 is that one which takes approximatly 12:30 to fly more than 5000 Nm.

George

ZKSUJ · Fri Oct 29, 2004 7:20 am

My longest time at the controls would be about 7-8 hours. I was doing an A.net VA flight number 002 from SIN-MAN. 2x Speed during cruise and on occasions 4x speed. It takes about an hour to taxi, take off and climb, and another hour to descend, land and taxi to the gate.

mikeyCpvd · Sat Oct 30, 2004 12:29 pm

RossyBoy:

This was why Clrd2go was saying not to contact ATC once you get your handoff. ATC can't kick you off your IFR flight plan if they're not in 2-way communication with you. Once you hear "American 408 (my own personal callsign), contact Montevideo Center on 126.3," agree to do it (i.e. accept the handoff), then after that don't bother contacting Montevideo center, or whatever ARTCC until you are at or near your top-of-descent. As you make your way to your destination, FS9 will automatically sequence to the next station in the ATC dialog box as you cross over airspace boundaries. This way, you get back on frequency when you are ready to land, ATC will accept you at your current position and nothing less. If you are on any other routing other than GPS-Direct, ATC will initially want to vector you back to the first waypoint that you "missed," or as they see it, the first waypoint you hit after you went on your radio silence protest. Ignore all the instructions until they give you a heading followed by a "proceed on course" or "resume own nav." Allow them a few seconds to get caught up with you. The good thing is they haven't figured out how to provide ATC with an attitude problem, as in:

American 408: "Miami Center, American 408 with you, FL 330."
Miami Center: "American 408, Miami Center, you managed to avoid Washington Center, Atlanta Center, and Jacksonville Center. You trying to play us now? How 'bout this, we get the last laugh - IFR flight plan is cancelled, radar service terminated, find your own way to MIA, and when you do, my supervisor would like a word with you."

Maybe FS 2006 will have more diverse "personalities" for ATC. In the meantime, when the opportunity presents itself, stay off the mic until you need something from them.
Smile/happy/getting dizzy

Keep it greasy

[Edited 2004-10-30 05:31:45]

[Edited 2004-10-30 05:36:58]

NAV20 · Sat Oct 30, 2004 1:19 pm

I'd say the longest-ranged aeroplane available on FS2004 is the B52.

I 'flew' it Melbourne-Heathrow non-stop 'east-about' - that is, crossing the whole Pacific and the USA. It took five or six sessions, saving in between. I had fuel to spare when I landed, too, could have gone on to about Cairo if I'd wanted to.

Can't tell you the actual distance for an odd reason - the 'Flight Planner' won't plan a flight that way, it will only select the shortest distance, which of course would have been west-bound. But it's around 16,000 nms.!

ZKSUJ · Sat Oct 30, 2004 5:49 pm

16,000.....Thats a bit of distance to fly Big grin

LHR27C · Wed Nov 03, 2004 2:03 am

My longest have been LHR-JNB, JNB-LHR and HKG-AMS, all around 11 hours. I tend to use ATC in VFR if it all, it's a nightmare in IFR if you're trying to fly SIDs/STARs when they want to take you under vectors 50 miles out. Only problem is when there's nasty weather and the airports are only operating IFR so deny any ATC assistance, particularly tricky at LHR where it becomes a dodge the AI game Big grin

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DeltaRules · Wed Nov 03, 2004 6:42 am

TPE-HKG...took around an hour in a 747-400. 2nd longest was ATL-CMH in a DL 757, then CMH-CLT in a US A319. I don't have a lot of patience, so I rarely do anything more than an hour, give or take a few minutes. Big grin

I wondered how to handle ATC in an IFR flight that someone would do overnight...never thought to take a handoff & not call the next center until you're near your destination. Good idea Clrd2go!

DeltaRules

MADtoCAE · Wed Nov 03, 2004 6:51 am

Manchester-Cophenagen with A.net airlines.
More than 2 hours.My record Big thumbs up

crank · Wed Nov 03, 2004 10:05 am

I think mine was Wellington-Paris, using a Cathay A343. I had taken off from Wellington with a full fuel load, and when I landed in Paris I was about 30% full. The flight was 23 hours long, back in the good old days when I still had FS98 Big thumbs up

TBA04 · Wed Nov 03, 2004 3:50 pm

Just attempted HKG-LHR, but ran out of fuel??

I had a fully fuelled 744. anyone know a reason for this?

Did SYD-HKG no problem the other day.

ZKSUJ · Wed Nov 03, 2004 5:31 pm

ummm....That's weird, did you have huge wind factors or something? Try a 345 next time, they can do quite a bit of milage before running out of fuel Big grin

How long does HKG-LHR take in real life?

TBA04 · Wed Nov 03, 2004 8:32 pm

HKG-LHR takes about 12.5 hours in real life. I did it with no wind, but full pax load. This is a realistic flight, so i dont see why i ran out of fuel.

I set the A/P to FL370 at 310KIAS. Power setting wrong maybe? what do you guys use?

baw2198 · Thu Nov 04, 2004 8:49 am

ORD-LHR 8hrs gate to gate.

working on LAX-ATL with a Delta 1011-200 4 hrs g-g

The next one will be ORD-HNL UA T7 9 hrs. gate to gate

ZKSUJ · Thu Nov 04, 2004 10:44 am

TBA04-I can't seem to realise a problem, I can do SIN-MAN about 14 hours with ease in a 744. My altitude is FL320 and I cruise at Mach 0.84 which is between 490 and 510 KIAS. I can also complete flights like AKL-LAX with no fuel troubles at all.

TBA04 · Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:46 pm

ZKSUJ, my cruise speed? you said you use between 490 and 510 KIAS, but I use 310... is this way too slow? the power setting is about 72 N1, wouldnt mach .84 use just about 100 N1? I'll give it a go anyway.

ZKSUJ · Thu Nov 04, 2004 5:56 pm

That is probably why, you are going too slow at too high an altitude. 72 N1 is much to high, as I mentioned before, I cruise at Mach 0.84/0.85 at around FL260-FL340 and my N1 is around 52%-55%.
72% is like when I am climbing Big grin

NAV20 · Thu Nov 04, 2004 7:24 pm

TBAO4 - are you setting the autopilot in actual knots, as opposed to Mach speed?

If so, I think I see why you have a fuel problem. 310 KNOTS is far too fast at height, because of the thinner air - at 37,000 feet it would be around Mach .9 or 700-plus knots. Always set the A/P in Mach speed above 20,000 feet - usually in the Mach 0.75-78 range.

Hope that helps Smile

TBA04 · Thu Nov 04, 2004 8:05 pm

NAV20,

yes i am setting the AP in knots, I see how im stuffing up now.

thanks very much for your help guys. I'll let you know how my second attempt at HKG-LHR goes!

NAV20 · Thu Nov 04, 2004 9:56 pm

Really glad it sorted things out, TBAO4. Not often you can hit the target first time when you try to help people on here!

Couple more tips which will help with fuel. You can use a lot of fuel - up to 15% - in the climb out, if you're not careful. After takeoff try setting the IAS to 250 or so. You'll see the true airspeed in Mach speed edging up as she climbs. When it reaches about Mach 0.65, fix it at that till the end of the climb, then accelerate to cruising speed.

Also, climbing out, 'play with' the rate of climb. If N1 goes much above 75%, ease the rate so it comes down to that again. Depending on the aeroplane, I wouldn't go much above 33,000 feet anyway with a full fuel load - it costs fuel to stay high as well as to get high. You can always go up a few thousand more when the aircraft is lighter.

Coming down, it's a good idea to set the speed hold to 250 (Indicated Air Speed) as soon as you start the descent. That will economise on fuel and also get you painlessly down to the legal max. as you get down below 10,000 feet.

Cheers Smile

ZKSUJ · Fri Nov 05, 2004 8:33 am

Yeah, I set the AP to Mach after 10,000 feet. Then I cruise all the way using Mach. I switch beck to knots when I am starting my descent. Mach 0.70 for descent till FL200 then 320KIAS for descent below FL200 and finally 245KIAS below 10,000 feet. Vertical speed is about 800ft/minute to 1200ft/minute. I hope this helps.

cancidas · Fri Nov 05, 2004 2:15 pm

from martha's veyard to floyd bennett field in the DC-3. took almost an hour. that's it actually, did that when i installed the game and haven't been back since. thats was 4 months ago.

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