Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2007 10:47 pmAfter recently flying a Trans-Atlantic flight, there was only one last sim frontier to conquer- the mighty pacific ocean. So, I installed an old Meljet Boeing 772 and got busy planning a 6543 mile long flight from Auckland (NZAA) to San Francisco (KSFO), a route flown daily by our national flag carrier as 'New Zealand 8'. I was going to mimic the flight exactly, setting off at 8.10pm and arriving stateside at approximately 12.00pm that same day, although the flight itself would take just over 12 hours to complete.
Now I didn't sit in front of my PC for that whole time staring at the ocean- I took off, flew the departure from Auckland and set autopilot up for the long cruise- then went to bed- woke up and flew the last hour or so, then the arrival into the famous San Francisco bay with my newly installed FlyTampa scenery (following on the company theme of long distance scenery from my last big flight).
Anyway, below are 22 screenshots (1.61mb) that I took en-route. Not the most interesting as you can imagine with little scenery to look at along the way and a fairly low quality freeware jet to get me from A to B. Also, the world time clock in my sim is out of sync, showing the black night sky at NZAA on departure, even set to mid-summer where the sun wouldn't even have set yet. Oh well, here goes:
Saturday night:
Sunday morning:
Land Ahoy:
And finally, my real-time AI counterpart, in the correctly updated livery:
Apologies to 56k'ers for the many screenies- but this was the longest flight I have ever done so it only seems appropriate to cover it in depth
Now I didn't sit in front of my PC for that whole time staring at the ocean- I took off, flew the departure from Auckland and set autopilot up for the long cruise- then went to bed- woke up and flew the last hour or so, then the arrival into the famous San Francisco bay with my newly installed FlyTampa scenery (following on the company theme of long distance scenery from my last big flight).
Anyway, below are 22 screenshots (1.61mb) that I took en-route. Not the most interesting as you can imagine with little scenery to look at along the way and a fairly low quality freeware jet to get me from A to B. Also, the world time clock in my sim is out of sync, showing the black night sky at NZAA on departure, even set to mid-summer where the sun wouldn't even have set yet. Oh well, here goes:
Saturday night:
Sunday morning:
Land Ahoy:
And finally, my real-time AI counterpart, in the correctly updated livery:
Apologies to 56k'ers for the many screenies- but this was the longest flight I have ever done so it only seems appropriate to cover it in depth
