What Long Haul Pilots Do in the Cruise: A Boeing 787 Tutorial with a Real 787 Pilot MSFS
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 มี.ค. 2024
- 15 Hours in the cruise, is it boring, is there anything to do? Today I'll answer these questions and guide you through what long haul airline pilots need to do during the cruise!
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What long haul simpilots do in the cruise :
- Setup autopilot
- alt-tab
- youtube : binge watch 320simpilot videos
- alt-tab every 5 minutes to make sure you haven't crashed
Last point is too real 💀
You missed multiple “Get Coffee”
Either that or get bored and increase the sim rate to the point where the aircraft becomes unstable and crashes.
Up the sim rate, grab a brew, and watch some videos/put some tunes on!
I'm quite different:
-Decide to do a 10 hour flight
-get in the air with at least 5 mistakes
-cruise for an hour or two
-panic because something happened and dont know what to do
-give up
Scrambled to find this video to figure out what S/C means
From what I've gleaned from various forums; the thing Semi-Professional® Long Haul Flight Simmers get up to during the cruise is just leave their PC on all day/night and then go to work or go to bed and then just come back when it's time to descend and land.
I always used to visit the cockpit during very long flights, the crew always seemed happy to chat.
good old days
34 minutes?! zomg what else will I do while I watch this.
Thanks for another outstanding tutorial! The knowledge you share helps us all get more enjoyment out of our hobby. Look forward to more great content on the channel. Hopefully you will be doing some tutorials on the 777 once the PMDG model arrives.
I will indeed be making content with the 777 very soon!
As a flight dispatcher (flight planner/flight planner for you europeans) this video is spot on for ETOPS conciderations, planning, contingencies, failure scenarios, systems monitoring etc.
Good stuff.
Hi mate! Starting my APS MCC on the A320 soon, really enjoyed all your airbus tutorials and things. Since watching them ive became a fan!
Excellent video, I have learnt so much😊 The way you speak, the way you explain, you would be the very best instructor/teacher! Thank you!
Awesome video, your content is always top notch! It's so great that you now have this long haul knowledge to share with us. It's an area that really isn't covered much in the flight sim community but something I really want to do more often. Things like Atlantic crossings, ETOPS, long haul cruise procedures have always been a mystery that I wanted answers to. Can't wait to know the 787 like I now do the 320 thanks to you.
Thank you so much, really kind words and I really appreciate it!
@@320SimPilot The last point is really true! I had the pleasure of experiencing a level D simulator and got the aircraft from cold and dark to takeoff. The knowledge you shared with the community over the years is incredible and the quality of your content is even more so!! You're an absolute gem to the flight sim community!!
I finally made a long haul because of your detailed work of 787! Made me learn a lot in 2-3 days! So I finally made a long haul from ENGM - KJFK on VATSIM! Was quite fun when we did the SELCAL testing and the oceanic clearance and stuff.
Again. Thank you so much for bringing us this detailed work of an 787!
Love your channel always great information!!! Can't wait for the FBW A380x.
This was a fantastic video! Just this past Monday I flew LFPG-KBOS (as a pax, I'm not a pilot) on a 772 (AF). The whole time I was wondering what was going on up there. Really great insights! Love this channel!
great video that was the one question i had because for some reason i just couldnt imagine a long cruise for pilots thank you for giving us an insight!
Fascinating stuff as always, very interesting to hear the perspective of a long haul flight 🙂
Glad you enjoyed it!
Fantastic video! I love these kinds of insights that are not talked about very much, at least to the general public.
Thank you so much, glad you enjoyed it!
Great video as always! Very informative
Thank you!
A new video 😊 I have a question, when youre flying these big birds, have you had to adjust the sensitivity settings at all? Would be great to find out what a real pilot has them set at, as straight out of the box the sensitivity is terrible. Thanks!
Very interesting topic! Not having done a long haul flight in MSFS before, I did wonder how you passed the time. Not wildly different from what I imagined. 3 questions: 1) Do you flip up the HUD during the cruise or leave it down? 2) Do you alternate meal times so 1 pilot is concentrating on monitoring while the other is eating? 3) Do you have to balance your dinner tray on your lap? I assume you're probably missing the famous Airbus dinner tray. haha. Oh and I assume there must be cup holders away from critical instruments, to avoid spilling your drink on the controls or if there is bad turbulence?
Thanks for watching! Great questions. You can flip up the HUD, this will depend on airline procedures if you’re allowed to. Eating at the same time on long haul is possible but rare for reasons as you say and there’s plenty of time. Often one pilot will take the radio and have control whilst the other eats. And finally yes, a tray on your lap and yes, I miss the Airbus table!
But if everyone offsets to the right, won’t you all just receive the same amount of wake turbulence anyway, just offset in the same place to the right? Doesn’t it rely on some people to not offset at all?
After working with an airline years ago, and having multiple opportunities to fly jump seat, I saw what pilots do. While I wont assume all pilots behave as some did, I can also come to the conclusion that the actions I saw werent likely uncommon. If only the passengers knew 😳
Absolutely wonderful video as always. The only problem with it is that it is really making me wish we had a proper payware 787 in the sim. I can't see one on the horizon soon either sadly.
I hope you do a video covering the 787’s data entry flow. Like how A320 had DIFSRIP!
How does the pilots on board ( break / rotation ) work on these 12-15 hours flights
So now that you have been flying the 787 for some time, what are your thoughts on yoke vs. side stick and the general FBW philosophies of Airbus and Boeing? Do you prefer one over the other?
Question on the step climb - if you in vnav (vnav path) will it just do the climb for you or do you have to intervene? Many thanks for the videos. We off to Doha from Lusaka in a weeks time so might do the trip in this lovely airplane. More of a bush pilot here in Africa than an airline guy but do enjoy the challenges of the processes and procedures
Amazing video. Will we get a descent tutorial?
in the cj4 you can get the metar through the fmc radio too, I don't know if the 787 has sonething similar, it's a bit more immersive
Thank you for a great video. I have a question, maybe a strange one, but anywho. How much “off” were the old planes with regards to fuel planning compared to new modern ones? Like comparing a 747-100 to a modern 787? I assume the new modern planes have more accurate fuel calculations and such? Of course the older planes/engines burned more fuel, but did they have a bigger margin when calculating fuel needed? Thank you in advance 😀
great!! 👍🏾
What would you do if you were unable to takeoff from the active and there were no longer runways, e.g. sudden runway closure for an extended period of time.
On the CDU when your talking about why you're flying slow, the speed restriction is 250, not .85, which is why you're flying slower
I’m just attempting my first long haul flight in the sim so I thought I’d come back to this video for reference. Do you know why it won’t let me enter any number into the step size? It currently says ICAO in there.
Just when I start a 789 flight b/w Mexico and Amsterdam, perfect 👌
Enjoy!
Thanks!
Thank you so much, I really appreciate it!
It would be funny ass hell if I got a SELCAL sound “BING BONG” hahahaha
Can i ask, does the fuel remaining figure on the Progress page reflect the expected/planned step climb where addit fuel flow is required?
How do you vatsim longhauls if you’re under atc control? I don’t want to miss any ATC transmissions.
The Channel "OpsGroup" has extensive TH-cam videos that explains for hours and hours how flights request a north atlantic clearance, what happens behind the scenes, how the control center looks like, all the computers (good old Unix interfaces), etc. etc.
does only the pilot monitoring do all this stuff or do both pilots need to do that. If only the monitoring what does the pilot not monitoring do?
If I were on a long haul in real life.. id have "somebody" constantly monitoring my position , emergency scenarios and the "what ifs" . Because if the shit were to hit the fan you wouldn't be in good shape if you were disengaged mentally, which im sure it'd be easy to do.
Is your intro an instrumental of we didn't start the fire?
if i donated my p3d sim to you, could you make a quality wings 787 video 😂? ive been dying for wide body pilots on youtube. too many a320 and b737 pilots.
What about your seats? How often to you make sure they aren’t malfunctioning? 😄
(Off topic)
It's Interesting how in the western world, when you talk about wide body planes. It's always about long haul 12+ hours flights.
In Asia, there are many airlines operate wide bodies for 1-6 hours flights.
As an Asian, through out my years of traveling on short-medium haul flights, I think I've only ever been on a narrow body twice.
A300, A330, A350, 777, 787. I could even go on a 1 hour flight on a 747-400 back when they were around.
This is very true. South Korea used to operate 747s on the GMP-CJU route, which is about one hour. Same goes for many Japanese domestic flights.
Middle East is nuts too - you see A380, 777, and 787 on 2-3 hr flts.
Quick question for any LH pilots, at what distance do you have a 3rd pilot on Modern Airlines, and where is the bed?
I don't know about LH. But usually, there is not a one-size-fits-all answer. That's what I know from a big airline in my country. Pilots are evaluated by the rest they have gotten (layover vs staying at home, rest in a crew room, rest in a hotel, rest onboard, rest with jetlag, rest without jetlag...) And flights are evaluated by the length and at what time the flight is (the longer, the higher the fatigue, the more crossed timezones, the higher the fatigue, night flights are especially touchy and so on). From all those assessements, dispatch creates a fatigue index for pilots and for flights. And according to this index, an airline will dispatch two or three pilots. Of course, there is that hard set limit by regulatory bodies (10 hours which can be extended to twelve under special circumstances) which forces an airline to dispatch three pilots in any case, but depending on the fatigue risk of a flight, airlines will also dispatch three pilots on shorter "high-risk flights". So there could be a longer low-risk flight with only two pilots and a shorter high-risk flight with three pilots. I guess many airlines handle it differently. Don't know what LH does in that case.
Roughly, if it’s more nine hours or more it’s 3 pilots, and roughly 12 or more it’s 4.
My OCD was going off the rails cause you didn't address/fix the speed....lol
Hey guys, which is better model for 787 kuro or horizon?
Both very good apparently.
I was under the impression that even on long haul flights, the 787 could cruise at .85M or greater. Interesting that the one here is just at .79M. Is this standard?
It was sticking to 250kt IAS for some unknown reason, which is not normal and SimPilot stated that it should be at around .84M, as shown on the VNAV page.
@@salokin1 I though so. Thanks for clarifying.
17:20 Shout out to my home airport YYT in St. John's Newfoundland
Somebody pushed the seat button at 33:00 😂
What they really do is ask the flight attendants is there any leftover food or snacks
wish they were short haul again.
33:00 Man dropped 2000 feet according to the FD, says 'I suppose it was weather updating' 😂
Next up video:
"What book long haul VATSIMers reading during the cruise?"🌝
Bing Bong
Play football manager
Update the PLOG
talk about your roster
Look out the window
Generic conversation
Talk to cabin crew
404 altitude not found
Better than a 500 😂
403 and you might get scrambled...
Bored? Get a Concorde
I'ma head to sleep
Sleep and play with hostesess
I see you've come in a time machine from the 1960's. lol
@@InnocentBigWaterfall-uq7cx😂