what do you do on long flights (over 3 hours ... up to 7 or 10 hours)

[timtomairways]

well i dont normally do long flights. useally my FSpX flights are departing KATL, and flying to other airports that Delta gose to. longest
flight was to KDFW, and it was about 2h 30m long.

i do plan of doing a KATL to KSLC assoon as i get a chance, but i havent had time to do it. i useally get in at least 3 flights a week to get
$$ but its useally KATL to KJAX, not even an hour, ive done it so much i could probly do it with my eyes shut. i have done a few KATL to
KDAB, but only becaues the daytona500 is this weekend (go Dale JR)

as for what i do on long flights, other things, but i always stay withen earshot of the PC, and useally checkit every 30min. i turn on the
speakers and unplug my headset so i can hear things like the TCAS, but i hand comms over to my copilot

[Valoran]

Still grade papers for the most part but now I also have my baby to play with. She's 6 months now and starting to get fun.

[Myrm]

I play Animal Crossing on the Nintendo DS Lite

[jaskanFactor]

Time accelaration is the only way, i use it on short and long flights.

However there is an ATC issue

1 - If using FSX Atc, dont tune anymore centres after your dapature centre hands you over, so when depature says, contact so and so,
acknowledge, but dont contact. This means you dont have atc running at x times acceleration in flight.


2 - Or just get Radar Contact Addon and use an ATc that allows you to use time acceleration, while it operates at normal speed.


I am usually but not always board, just before decsent starts, so i use time aceeleration all the time.

Another trick for long flights and time acceleration is
Set moderate speed like 300 KTAS and Climb really high like 35000 and above so you can use 16x acceleration without the danger of
weather bumping your plane at 16X

[KOrenKO]

guys, what to do, when you have only one pc? when im flying and i wanna browse internet, FSX automatically pause the flight. and
sometimes, im flying more than hour, then i wanna to check the airport runways on internet / dunno how to use navigation lol / and i click
again on fsx icon and i cant come back, game not reposnding.. thats so anoying

[SkyAirWorld]

Turn of pause on task change, browse around the the FS options/ settings

[Wreck1463]

I'm going to have to agree with iflyfsx on this one. I've only been using FSPx for a couple weeks, and I've already had failures that would
put me in the ocean had I not been paying attention. I won't spoil one of the failures in case folks haven't seen it, but for the aircraft I was
in, and the position of the world I was in (carribean) the only clue I would've had that something was wrong was that my co-pilot would've
announced "descending below 10 thousand feet" before I had started a descent. Had I been away from the computer I wouldn't have
noticed what was going on. Time acceleration was on at the time, and it would've been a matter of minutes in real time that my flight
would've ended up in a crash. SO, my point is getting up and leaving the computer could potentially have really bad effects on your flight
(especially if you use the automatic registering like I do). It's just like real life, probably nothing bad will happen in your flight, but all it
takes is one missed problem of your plane to start a "snowball" effect that really puts you in a pickle. If you're like me, you don't have
enough time to sit in front of the computer for a really long time, so time acceleration is my only option. It lets me check the instruments,
weather, fuel, etc. while still getting the long flights in. Sorry for the long post!
-Wreck

[Antonio]

that is a good question, maybe it will be the best thing to do anything else onto the same computer, but the PAUSE will be automatically activated.
Does anybody knows how to use multitasking without game to be paused? Playing outside football, or basketball or anything else, it's not a good
choice, because we have to do economy of energy, not wasting energy, without using just the PC hor more hours just for 10 min. landing. I think like
that, maybe like an europenian guy. So I'm really interested in deactivating pause in case of multitasking.

[SkyAirWorld]

Antonio.... Read above... my earlier post tells you how to do that exactly

SkyAirWorld wrote:
Turn of pause on task change, browse around the the FS options/ settings

[Antonio]

yes there is in settings/ general. Thank you very much, I can do now ,long trips and also learning in the same time, that's great.

[ianonline]

right now im flying from Manila to San Francisco, its going to take me 13 hours.. I started last night, and while on cruise i had it on autopilot.
woke up today 10am fed the passengers and went on with my daily routine...

usually for shorter flights at most 2 hours i just browse youtube or play the guitar..

[stefaan041]

ianonline wrote:
right now im flying from Manila to San Francisco, its going to take me 13 hours.. I started last night, and while on cruise i had it on
autopilot.
woke up today 10am fed the passengers and went on with my daily routine...

usually for shorter flights at most 2 hours i just browse youtube or play the guitar..

well be glad you had no eletrical failure or some other hazardus inflight failure.

losing fuel, rapid decompression, electrical system failure. engine failure.

well , if i do a long flight , then im on teamspeak , surfing the google , calculating arrivaltime callculating fuel , reading wheather to avoid
storms, checking every ten or less minutes my fuel and navigation and instruments. keeping up with atc at wich time i get in wich
airspace.
but realy i dont like these long flights as my crew says, lol.

i see it happen electrical system failure, the ap fails , plane starts to dive , passengers start to screem there long out and the pilot , well
the pilot is in a deep deep sleep dreaming abaut girls and cars.lol

[Jason]

Talk about thread resurection.

[Joeflyer]

Someone didn't read the forum rules, eh?