BA747-436 From United Kingdom, joined Jan 2001, 1259 posts, RR: 14 Reply 1, posted (7 years 10 months 3 weeks 1 day 16 hours ago) and read 1107 times:
Hi i do many Longhaul flights from London Heathrow and Gatwick to Northern USA, Asia, Australasia, Africa, middle east, South America and Canada. So just about everywhere! I fly for a VA called BritishAirways Virtual. I mostly use 777-236's, 747-236/436 and 767-336ER. I realy enjoy using the FSnavigator for FS2000 as it is the easiest thing to use and realy reliable. I have logged over 1,300 hours on British Airways Virtual mostly doing longhaul flying. Depending on the length of the flight and the amount of time i have to fly i normaly fly at 4X speed over the Atlantic then down to normal over the land. This makes the flight a bit quicker and more interesting. As 6 hours seeing nothing but ocean is a bit boreing! Anyway i hope this helps
rgrds-Dan
FSPilot747 From United States, joined Oct 1999, 3596 posts, RR: 15 Reply 3, posted (7 years 10 months 3 weeks 1 day 1 hour ago) and read 1066 times:
I strongly disagree with speeding up the sim-rate. Its just way to unrealistic. I have never ever done that. But thats me, you may differ. I have done lots of long haul flights. LAX-SYD, LAX-FRA, ORD-LHR, LAX-Tokyo, you name it. The best thing to do on a really long haul flight, (over 10 hrs.) is to do a night flight. Take off late at night if you want, it all depends on how late or early you sleep. After you have taken off, stay with it until you have reached your final cruising altitude, and make sure the planes navigation system, whichever you use, (I use the FMC with-PSS777) is set. Make sure the plane is heading ok, Plan your route. (When I have alot of time (Rarely ) I spend time to make a nice flightplan including plane, appx. crusing altitude and est. speed, flight depart/arrival info, etc...)Then once everything looks good, altitude good, speed good, navigation, set. Sleep or something. Just make sure you wake up before you need to descend.
On flights like 6 hrs., A good thing to do is take off in the morning or afternoon. Then you can watch the flight in progress whenver you want or can. This way youlll be able to land at around 6 or 7PM-or earlier, depending on when you start, or what your flight is. Hope these tips help .
Cba From United States, joined Jul 2000, 4299 posts, RR: 3 Reply 4, posted (7 years 10 months 3 weeks 1 day 1 hour ago) and read 1070 times:
Download FSNavigator from http://www.flightsim.com. This is the best program out there. First I plan my flight in FSNavigator. It even includes SIDs/STARs. I then takeoff, and engage FSNavigator (it links directly to FS98/2000 autopilot). It then flies the flight for me. It can also fly the approach, and land the plane. It calculates proper descent rate, and flies the STAR/ILS perfectly. You may want to flare manually though. After I am at cruising altitude, I turn the simulation rate up to 4X. I turn it back to normal once I am ready to descend.
Pacific From Hong Kong, joined Mar 2000, 968 posts, RR: 0 Reply 6, posted (7 years 10 months 3 weeks 6 hours ago) and read 1030 times:
I usually choose major cities. Whenever I get a new plane, I usually try to take it to the limit. I have quite a few longhaulers.
CDFAIR B744
Air Scandinavia A340-8000
Continental B777-200 (LRX? It can stay in the air for more than 21 hours)
SR MD11
BAE 146 (The designer mucked up the fuel consumption rate)
I've done
JFK-HKG several times
HKG-LHR
Wellington-LHR
Wellington-Helsinki
LHR-JFK
HKG-Geneva
I always set the rate to 4X once I start climbing. It takes several sessions of flight simming to complete a longhaul. I just save and resume later.
Cba, I still haven't worked out how to use the FS Navigator auto fly flightplan. Can you tell me how to do it?
FP_v2 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 7, posted (7 years 10 months 3 weeks 6 hours ago) and read 1018 times:
For long haul flights I use FSN Navigator 3.0. I just program in all the waypoints, speed etc, take off, fly to cruise altitude, turn the auto pilot on, set the speed to 4x and go watch tv. Watching the screen for 9 hours is nuts, I have better things to do with my life. I check the sim regularly and when its time to decend i do it manualy.I get my enjoyment form arriving before the scheduale and burining the least fuel.
CleCo From United States, joined Dec 2000, 569 posts, RR: 4 Reply 10, posted (7 years 10 months 2 weeks 6 days 8 hours ago) and read 996 times:
Where can I get good aircraft and a converter for FS2k? I have been looking in all the places where I got them for FS98 but I just can't seem to find many. And absolutely no luck with the converter, if it's still called that.
Timbo From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 11, posted (7 years 10 months 2 weeks 6 days 7 hours ago) and read 1002 times:
I've done some JFK-Heathrow flights. I'm thinking of doing an ultra long-range Chicago-Hong Kong flight too. I use the PSS 747 and 777. I love the FMC on those planes.
SAS_A330-300 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 13, posted (7 years 10 months 2 weeks 5 days 17 hours ago) and read 985 times:
My longest is Stockholm-Darwin.
I used an A340-500 for this 15 hours flight.
What I didn't use was the sim rate. So it took me almost a whole day to make this flight.
CleCo From United States, joined Dec 2000, 569 posts, RR: 4 Reply 14, posted (7 years 10 months 2 weeks 5 days 14 hours ago) and read 977 times:
Donder,
Download flight zip 2000 from flightsim.com. when you set it up go to the menu which says aircraft. Change the panel to the one that came with the 777-300. This will allow you to use GPS.
Whistler_CYOW From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 15, posted (7 years 10 months 2 weeks 3 days 7 hours ago) and read 948 times:
I think the longest flight ive made so far was last week in a Syrianair 747sp from Tel Aviv-Amsterdam (I know syrian wouldn't fly out of there but I ELAL doesn't use SPs, my fav plane, and Damascus sucks ) in Fs2k. Im not sure if Tel-Aviv-Schipol is farther than the JFK-LHR I flew saturday in a Pan Am SP, i will have to check that out.
Cba From United States, joined Jul 2000, 4299 posts, RR: 3 Reply 16, posted (7 years 10 months 2 weeks 3 days 3 hours ago) and read 945 times:
JFK-HKG! Hah, that's nothing compared to my longest. I flew IAH-HKG in a CO 777-200ER. 16 hours.
Pacific:
If you have FS98, you need to download the FS98 patch for it to work. I used to have the same problem, the auto flightplan wouldn't work. Now I downloaded the patch and it does.
USAFHummer From United States, joined May 2000, 10685 posts, RR: 56 Reply 19, posted (7 years 10 months 2 weeks 1 day 19 hours ago) and read 909 times:
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My longest flight with a clear destination was Gander-Keflavik, in a C-130, taking about 4 hours-I once took off from NRT in a BA 757, and just set the autopilot to cruise on 090-16 hours later I was near FLL so I landed there-That BA 757 had some screwed up modeling...
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GunFighter 6 From Netherlands, joined Jan 2001, 404 posts, RR: 0 Reply 20, posted (7 years 10 months 2 weeks 1 day 19 hours ago) and read 908 times:
I fly for Northwest Virtual Airlines.
I weekly fly longhaul flights. mostly out of MSP.
destinations vary from AMS to Tokyo.
I normaly use the PSS777 or the Wilco B767 with their
FMC you can fly the route including STAR/SID very good. Longhaul flights are the best.
you just have to have some inflight movies
USAFHummer From United States, joined May 2000, 10685 posts, RR: 56 Reply 23, posted (7 years 10 months 6 days 3 hours ago) and read 848 times:
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I will be attempting a trans-pacific flight soon and tomorrow I have plans to fly EWR-LGW in 1x speed with a CO 762...making sure that the CPU does NOT crash on me...like my attempt on Monday...
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) I spend time to make a nice flightplan including plane, appx. crusing altitude and est. speed, flight depart/arrival info, etc...)Then once everything looks good, altitude good, speed good, navigation, set. Sleep or something. Just make sure you wake up before you need to descend. 
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