Had a nice flight last night

[lightrail]

This program is a great way to relax after a day at the office.

LAst night I booked out a 737-400 and filed a IFR flight plan non-stop CYVR to CYYZ . A slight hesitation at taking the flight when I
calculated that I needed about 40,000 pounds of fuel, but found the 737-400 could only hold 30,000 pounds. Still, winds seemed
favourable, let's just hope no delays in landing in Toronto.

Climbed into the cockpit, and while the PAX were loading I contacted clearance delivery and got a weather update. After my flight attentant
had closed the doors and started the pre-flight announcements, I started up the engines. A short taxi and we were off from Runway 8L
climbing at 2500 ft per minute to our initial flight level 290.

Once leveled off, I started a hot food and drinks service and I compressed time to 4X (I didn't have time to sit there for 4.5 hours). This
was followed by a movie. Once we'd burned off about half our fuel, we climbed to FL320 and held about 320kt airspeed. After the movie
another drinks service as we started our slow descent (by now a went back to real time flying).

Fuel getting low, with 45 minutes flight time left and 60 minutes of fuel left, but as we're descending, I felt we'd have lots of fuel on
landing - just hope we don get a missed approach. Toronto approach vectored me onto final for Runway 15R and cautioned me about a
Learjet on approach to 15L - picked up the ILS beam and landed on the centreline - dropping a little too fast the last 100 ft, but levelling
nicely for a clean nighttime touchdown (my copilots tends to get scared easy). Taxied to the stand, applied the parking brake, shutdown
the engines unloaded the satisfied passengers bang on time (not a bad being within 5 minutes of the estimated arrival after 4.5 hours
travelling).

Good flight, netted me 150 points plus $6.5 million cash. Oh, and I still had just 45 minutes fuel left - too close really and if the winds had
been wrong, I would have received a penalty.

Now for the long hauls....

[Sovek]

just be glad you didnt have a flight like mine, I fly for Altair Airlines, took the 707 out of the Dawg pound, went from KMEM to Deluth, Got there,
being vectored into RW 27, the stupid ATC had a cessna coming in, didnt bother to have me on holding, went around for attempt number 2, was comming in
perfect, Sent me around again because of a stupid MD-80 was still on the runway, When passing the ATC tower I was like "I really wish you can have
your pilot open up the window, and give em the finger" is was maddning.

[SWAFO]

You should NEVER need 40,000LBS of fuel for a 4.5 hour flight.

[lightrail]

Still, the 737 was calcuated to burn about 8,000 per hour, so at least 28,000 plus reserves - seems that 2,000 reserve was a little low

[SWAFO]

You should be landing with at least 5,500LBS of fuel on board. I don't know where you got a 8,000lb/hr figure... that's quite a ways off
from it's real life equivalent.

[Passenger57]

Sovek wrote:
just be glad you didnt have a flight like mine, I fly for Altair Airlines, took the 707 out of the Dawg pound, went from KMEM to Deluth, Got there,
being vectored into RW 27, the stupid ATC had a cessna coming in, didnt bother to have me on holding, went around for attempt number 2, was comming in
perfect, Sent me around again because of a stupid MD-80 was still on the runway, When passing the ATC tower I was like "I really wish you can have
your pilot open up the window, and give em the finger" is was maddning.

You really still care? Give'em the high-beam lights and shout at the Cessna to move his sorry ...tail out of the way. Overtake him (literally) and
land. Period. ATC may say "You were not cleared", but I'm beyond caring about Bill Blind sitting on my XP64 and doing a worse ATC job that I could
without any training. Overtake, Land, (okay that might not be realistic) and "he" will tell the Cessna to go around, take a quick exit and taxi to the
gate.
Or does FSPax give a penalty for landing without clearance? Boy I think I have to try that tonight...

P57