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Long Haul Flights
EHM-0361 Karsten:
I agree, the real challenges are to be found flying the smaller aircrafts, no question about that.
I wouldn't mind if the rules where change about time compression. But I have to say I would mind the other part of your idea. That would make it impossible for pilots that don't have an internet connection or good enough hardware for on-line flying, to fly some flights of the airline.
Some pilots do all of there flying on-line, I think most do some of there flight on-line. But still some don't fly any flight on-line, either because they can’t or they don’t want to. EHM gives everybody the possibility to choose what suits them best, and that’s one of the things I like about it. I think we should be very careful about changing to many rules. EHM has been around for almost 4 years now, and I think that’s because there isn’t to many rules and the rules are simple, in most cases common sense.
EHM-1152 Thomas:
I have to disagree that nothing is learnt from flying long haul. Maybe not as much is learnt than flying smaller aircraft but there are still important lessons.
For example, when landing a 747, you need to touch down right in the middle of the runway due to its size. For this reason your approach has to be much more precise which is harder to do as with small aircraft you can make a lot more adjustments to get on the right line for landing.
However as I said before there is more to be learnt flying small planes on short flights so I think that the best thing to do is get a fine balance between the two. :>
EHM-0744 Alex:
I cant vote either... I fly long-haul flights, yes, and have 250 (aproximately) hours, but most of my flying is either tours or short flights around Europe... As far as the expirience thing concerns, you learn from both, the same as you would learn things from flying a helicopter, however I have to say the ultimate challenge is the Concorde, and that is a long range flights aircraft...
Anyway, if you have the rank you can always take the 747 out for a short stride (I did it for a LGAV-LTBA flight), and you can learn the same.
Cheers,
Alex;)
EHM-0240 Joe:
--- Quote ---Originally posted by Alex
Anyway, if you have the rank you can always take the 747 out for a short stride (I did it for a LGAV-LTBA flight), and you can learn the same.
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Well... you can't submit that flight to Euroharmony though, class 7 aircraft can only be flown on class 7 flights. :)
EHM-0744 Alex:
No, not really, if your rank allows it I believe reading in hte OPS manual that you can use it in any flight that your rank lets you, of course not as realisticly though...
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