Short Flight Penalty

[sfgiants13]

How long does the flight have to be to not get the short flight penalty and have the pax mad at you? I enjoy the really short 10 minute hops...but I
get penalyzed.

[Boston234]

Your flight time (flying time in the air) needs to be longer than 10 minutes.

[calumd]

hey

i always thought that it was 20minutes flying time...o well i was wrong

[XM DUDE]

i never fill in the time blocks, cause stff happens in flight, like I had a nasty fuel leak on my 767 and had to dump some fuel and do an
emergency landing in KPHX., I lost some points cause I forgot to squak 7700.

[jboweruk]

It does have to be over 20 minutes flying. Still if you are gonna give joyrides at least you can charge VIP prices for a 25 minute circuit
round an airshow.......

[Boston234]

Hi everyone,

Are you sure it has to be 20minutes? I have two flights that ended due to mechanical issues that were both under 19 minutes of block
time, and both had around 15 minutes of actual flying time, and luckily, I didn't received any penalties for short flights.

I also have at least one flight , with no emergencies , with time airbourne of only 16:45, and a total block time of: 19:47, and I still received
a "perfect" overall flight result, pilot bonuses of 330 points, but no penalties.

So maybe the time airbourne needs to be more than 15 minutes? I went thru the Manual, but didn't see any indication of any short flight
penalties. Athough I know I got a short flight penatly when I flew a flight that was just short of 10 minutes of flying time.

John