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EHM-0744 Alex:
Aha! Found it, here is the offcial (I think) quote from the OPS manual:

Important notes:

·   A pilot with a certain rank can also fly all planes/flights below his/her rank (e.g. a STC can fly Class 1, Class 2 and Class 3 planes and flights)
·   It is not compulsory (however it’s recommended) to fly a certain flight with the same Class plane, but you can’t fly jets on turboprop flights or turboprops on jet flights. Also, Class 7 planes can be flown only on Class 7 flights. Check section 4.4 for more information.

Woooooops, many sorries, wont do that again... thanks for the correction Joe!;)

EHM-0240 Joe:
Don't worry about it. It's actually a new rule that I think was only included in ops manual shortly after the crash, so if you haven't read it for a while you weren't to know. Even I don't know all the rules!

EHM-0962 Zhen Yi:
Time compression i believe is allowed to allow pilots who does not have lots of time on his hand to still enjoy flying his favourite route no matter now long it is.......which makes it one of the stong points of EuroHarmony in attracting and retaining pilots

Restricting the use of time compression does not achieve much as i see it as different people have different idea of how "long" flights are defined. While some people can tolerate 6 hours or more of flying time, some feel that even 2 hours is too long, and restricting it would only prevent the latter from really enjoying the flying experience. Therefore i feel that it would be better for pilots to use their own discretion with regards to the use of time compression

Restricting long flights to online only would cause the routes to become "abandoned" as very few people would be truely willing to fly online for such a period of time. I doubt that most people would even have so much time to commit to long haul flights at one go so that would be an impractical idea

EHM-1001 Robert:
Well, if you fly a B747 on a short flight with full tank, it is even harder to land than after a long-haul flight with empty tank. Anyway I like long-haul flights and I have 2 reasons:

-Every flight consists of 1 takeoff and 1 landing. The rest of the flight is very easy, even on-line. Therefore I think it does not lower the pilots qualities.  
-When I decide to fly a day, I usually file only 1 PIREP, so it is better to file more hours. With long-haul flights you can gain more flight hours and easily can get a higher rank.

Last time, I flew a long-haul flight, I flew from London to Toronto. I took up at saturday morning, I repaired the flat during flight (painting walls, tiling floors...), and landed in the night. Everybody was happy: I flew, I gain 8 hours, and the flat also gone ahead :)))

EHM-0695 Scott:
Time Compression is a great feature for those of us who work 7 days a week and can only spare a few hours but, Euroharmony regulations are very clear about not filing a 8 hour time compressed flight. If you flew an 8 hour flight at 2x time compression you should only be filing a report for 4 hours. This of course, messes up the statistics that management has worked so hard to provide but, that is another topic of discussion;D

Lucky me I have FS on my computer in my office. I fly and work at the same time when I can.

Certainly long haul flights should not be online only. With the exception of Concorde flights, I fly most of my long haul flights offline as I don't like to risk entering airspace with ATC when I am away from the computer.

"-Every flight consists of 1 takeoff and 1 landing."

True, but todays jumbo airliners can do all the work for you *INCLUDING* Takeoff and Landing ;D

Unless you're always flying into Hong Kong's now closed Kai Tak International, any clown (including my 6 yr old neighbour) can land a 747 (virtually of course). A properly programmed FMC can even determine the correct speeds for approach, flare and touchdown, deploy spoilers, engage reverse thrust and apply brakes.

Flying PMDG's 737-700 is flying a computer on my computer. Looks great, sounds authentic and took me a month to master the FMC. It is more exciting to watch an aircraft autoland than it is to disengage autopilot at 200 feet and land manually.

I hope everybody practices a manual ILS in a heavy once in a while! I flew an A340-600 into Frankfurt a while back hand flying the approach. The weather was great I just needed to shake the dust off the flight stick ;D Needless to say I was all over the localizer but the landing was pretty smooth ;)

Took Concorde into Hong Kong (old Kai Tak) last week.... Now that was flying!

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