Your Longest Flight

[JG2_Miller]

Hi folks,

 

After I finished my 900 miles flight from Tbilisi to the target near Maykop, then to the tanker near Anapa and then back to Tbilisi, I started to wonder what others have for records regarding flight distance and time. Post your longest flight gentlemen! Highest one gets a free cookie!

[Eddie]

Time? Around 4.5 hours. Distance? Not a clue.

[GripenNG]

My longest since I started log is 01:37 h. It was a Navigation flight including all nav methods. Can´t wait until I start with some tactical flights, I´m sure I will make some 4-5 hours missions just to keep it real! :)

[Snoopy]

Mine's been between 4 and and 4.5 hours...

[Speed]

I like how vaguely worded and open to interpretation this post topic is :)

 

In F4, I did a flight from central Saudi Arabia to strike an airbase in western Iraq once. Took like 4.5 hours, refueled in flight twice.

 

I also flew a low level strike from southern Israel and back a few times in a mission I made. Actually, the mission got featured on SimHQ later:

http://www.simhq.com/_air13/air_453a.html That was a very fun, pulse-pounding mission.

 

But I've heard tell of stories to put them all to shame... folks flying like 20 hour flights in C-130s in FSX.

 

But personally, my longest flight was Memphis to Anchorage on Alaska airlines. Wasn't very exciting :( Never been across the pond though, anyone who has done so has got me beat handily :)

 

While it's not flying, nothing can compare to the dude who did a full Silent Hunter 3 patrol to the mid Atlantic and back in his type VII U-boat- in realtime.

Edited November 21, 2011 by Speed

[andysim]

3 hours hehe, during Druids "On Call Mission"

[JaNk0]

Speed, do you have any more info about that Atlantic patrol? Sorry for hi jacking!

[EtherealN]

But I've heard tell of stories to put them all to shame... folks flying like 20 hour flights in C-130s in FSX.

 

Oh god, if we include FSX then I definitely have a few flights in that range - though they included quick refueling stops on islands. Flew round the world in a beechcraft baron on compass and clock. :D

 

In DCS... I never really thought about it, actually. Not as long as most people here, I usually find a way to get killed. :)

[Wichid]

What do you do whilst flying straight and level with the autopilot on? Read book? alt tab to youtube?

[andysim]

ok as someone mentions FSX, 8 hours and 50 mins back in 2007 on Vatsims "Cross the Pond" Event in a 747 heh. Normaly it would be boring as hell but with a NAT track full of other pilots it got very busy hehe. Maybe 200 or 300 pilots all crossing the same hehe.

[EtherealN]

What do you do whilst flying straight and level with the autopilot on? Read book? alt tab to youtube?

 

Recheck my wind reports and check my navigation calcs. When heading for an island in the wide ocean and spotty VOR coverage you don't want to get lost. :P

 

Aside from that, I would read books or play on the Xbox, yeah. :)

I don't fly FSX anymore now though.

[joey45]

couldn't resist it... sorry

 

for me 45 mins.. ran out of fuel and bailed out.

[Iceman2011]

1086nm one refuel/rearm - some 5 hrs or so good way to spend a night.

[213]

20 minutes from takeoff to engagement zone. i use time compression.

[joey45]

^^ cheat.

[BlueRidgeDx]

By far, my longest flights have been in FSX.

 

One notable trip was in a a 747-400F from Charleston AFB (CHS) with a quick-turn at Dover AFB (DOV) then on to Ramstein AFB (ETAR). After a little "crew rest", I continued on to Incirlik AB (LTAG) and finally Bagram AB (OAIX).

 

But I don't have time for that kind of flying anymore, so the most I get in DCS is about 1.5 at a time.

[RodBorza]

In DCS A-10, usually it is 1h30 min.

As for the longest flight ever, it has to be Jane's F-15, attacking targets in Northern Iraq, coming from south Saudi Arabia. It was 3 hours flight, very low over the desert, very tense.

[near_blind]

ok as someone mentions FSX, 8 hours and 50 mins back in 2007 on Vatsims "Cross the Pond" Event in a 747 heh. Normaly it would be boring as hell but with a NAT track full of other pilots it got very busy hehe. Maybe 200 or 300 pilots all crossing the same hehe.

 

That sounds like a lot more fun than the time i actually crossed the pond! but then again that was something like 10 hours (Chicago O'Hare to Munich) in close proximity with a few hundred of my closest friends, lol.

 

Longest flight i ever flew was an F-14 Ferry flight from Hickam AFB to North Island in San Diego in FS9, but i usually average 1-2 hours in DCS/FC.

Edited November 22, 2011 by near_blind

[Cali]

 

But I've heard tell of stories to put them all to shame... folks flying like 20 hour flights in C-130s in FSX.

 

But personally, my longest flight was Memphis to Anchorage on Alaska airlines. Wasn't very exciting :( Never been across the pond though, anyone who has done so has got me beat handily :)

 

Is that flying with autopilot on or not?

[NoJoe]

My longest flight in real life was from Billings, MT (KBIL) to Lewiston, ID (KLWS) in a Piper Archer back in 2007. It took about 3.5 hours. (long solo cross country flight for my commercial certificate)

 

My longest simulated flight in A-10 is probably only about 1.5 to 2 hours. Not much time for simming anymore.

 

--NoJoe

[Stuka]

Close to 5 hours.

[Snoopy]

Did a 4 hour MP training session last night...

[macedk]

I'm still flying!....Look join date :)

[159th_Viper]

I'm still flying!....Look join date :)

 

:megalol:

 

That's the Truth!

 

:)

[Torment]

Only about 1 hour 40 in this sim. My flight seat can get rather uncomfortable after the hour mark. IRL I did a 15.3 in 2006 which required three trips to the tanker:doh: