This is a question I have been meaning to ask for months. I've noticed that quite a few pilots on CBFS fly long distances at 1x simrate.
Once I'm up to cruise altitude I'm ready for the landing. The bit in the middle just gets whizzed over
What do you guys do?
Stick it on autopilot and go to the pub?
Sit there for the whole flight?
Just a bit of idle curiosity to how other pilots use Flynet.
'Stick it on autopilot and go downstairs to the pub!'
I don't do much long distance stuff because I always fly at x1 and I like to be there all the time. However, while bringing a couple of Yorks back from the US plus at least one Lancastrian.. I don't have the time (with 1 day off per week) to sit in front of the pc for 8.5hrs so where an aircraft has an AP, I'll use it on this sort of flight and keep popping back throughout the flight if I can't be there all the time. Some of my long flights have been done in front of the pc but if I can avoid it.. I stay to flights that I can be 'in attendance' throughout Longhaul takes very careful planning and this includes getting up early so that I can start a flight knowing that I can be there at BOD.
I've nothing against pilots who use a multiplyer.. it's just not for me
Depends where I'm flying... if its just across the pond, the pub is a good bet, but if its a 6 hour + job, I go to bed and set my alarm to get up 30 minutes before touchdown.... goes someway to explaining my dodgy landings.
Always x 1
Usually fly up to 2.5hrs one way and that's done real time as to increase sim-rate would not somehow feel as though I had earned my 'flying hours'.
Equally, when flying the Argosy, Dove or any other prop aircraft I rely on using the NDBs' and VORs' when flying from A to B and do not use a route planner so in effect this way increases the enjoyment of finding your own way to the destination field, to do it with increased sim-rate would somehow spoil it!!
Nigel.
I used to be an optimist but with age I am now a grumpy old pessimist.
if for any reason i can't get the time to fly at 1x then and only then will i fly above that. but in about 99% of the time i will fly at 1x, even the long flights. that's because i'am one of those silly buggers that fly DC3's with no autopilot. even in saying that i would use autopilot in other aircraft but decide to sit with the machine and watch the world go by. you never know when the faults might kick in. unless i need my cup of tea or the dog has to pee and not forgetting the young lad whining about he's hungry again.
must have tape worms or something, all skin and bone.
I don't typically use time acceleration but mainly because I like to fly online and with real weather and both have a nasty habit of throwing a wrench in the machine (or to use the British version - tossing a spanner in the works) so time acceleration doesn't give as much time to take into account those potential issues. Only time I use time acceleration is when a flight is taking longer than I'd thought and I need to get the flight finished for something more important like work.
I only use that facility the other way...I wind it down to slow motion (Minumum Setting) for working on scenery. For ALL flying I use x1, even if it is a long flight...Accelerating time changes it from a Simulator to a game
Some people that I admire, take things a little further in the interests of true simulation...As well as only using x1, they will only fly to places and always restart FS at where they were when they shut it down...They NEVER use the "Go to airport" facility. Last year when they visited me at my base in Alaska, they came from Greece, flew all the way on a bit of a circular tour, stayed for a week and then continued on their wending way
I used to use the time advance quite a bit but don't any more. Now its just climb to cruise alt and sort the plane out, stick the AP on, do the ATC trick and then pursue another activity of my choice until the end with a few checks to make sure everything is ok and for a few screenshots
I'm thinking of flying from Birmingham EGBB, to Birmingham KBHM, real time in an A36TC
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I've just been having a look at your flight log on the stats Steve. It tickles me that you even used 2x on a trip of 17nm. Ok the Rapide is slow, but blimey, that's a whole different level of impatience!
I nearly always use mutliple sim rates on longer flights. Just to get rid of those long straights where there's nothing to do but wait.
But because the cruising part is so boring, I usually stick with short hops of an hour or less & can enjoy it all at 1x speed.
Never using 'Go to Airport' ??? Computers are are wasted on these people.
Thanks Dave. I needed that.
I was about to give up as being unworthy of being a CBFS pilot. :prayer:
OK I agree that on some of the short stuff I have been in a bit of a hurry but it's usually just to test a glidepath out on an unfamiliar airfield.
That's my excuse anyway.
One question: What's the ATC trick jonesy?
