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EHM-2309 Joshua:
When you are doing flights that will last for 2 hours or more, do you use time acceleration? Or do you site at your computer for that length of time? Or leave your computer (plane) on autopilot and leave it to fly and check back everynow and then?

EHM-2378 Ashley:
Hi there Josh,

You should never use acceleration if you use ProPilot, but if you do, you can't give an accurate time, so i would get to cruise altitude and as you said, leave it and every now and again keep coming back to it.  Hope you are enjoying the virtual airline and hope you have many great flights.  Just think more hours higher rank;)

Enjoy,
Ashley V EHM-2378

EHM-2387 Eric-Jan:
If I fly, I NEVER use accelleration. I f I want to do a 5 hour flight, but I only have three hours, I usually wait for another opportunity to fly the leg, or fly a different flight.
If I fly a long flight, I usually sit behind the controls all the way (not counting the 5 mins. to refill my coffee). If I know upfront I am not going to do that (say I have some vacuum cleaning to do while on auto-pilot :o ), I'll do the flight offline and walk away when cruising.

EHM-0654 Murray:
Official company policy is you can if you wish use acceleration, but your flight time should be recorded as your real-life time used, not the FS time (so, if you fly a 5 hour flight in under an hour, you should submit the under an hour, not the full 5 hours...)

EHM-2383 Ian:
Can I just clarify? Is it official Euroharmony policy that if you fly in accelerated time you cannot ever use Flightlogger or Propilot but would have to put in a PIREP manually...... or can Flightlogger and/or Propilot be used and they would automatically record a shorter flight time?

I would have to fly accelerated time for a long haul flight as I would be unable to sit in front of the computer for 5+ hours. The answer might be to stick to shorthaul but I don't want to be deprived of the chance to fly some heavy metal sometimes!!

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