[Leemazz]

Ok you all know how it is when your on those 10+ hour flights , sorry but i have some more pics of my favourite bird called the DC-10. The DC-10 was build to American Airlines specs for short take offs entered service in 1971 with AA , 386 DC10s built (not including KC10s) and to this day over 140 still in operational use . The DC-8 holds the record for the most Aircraft hours flown on the planet , ok i will stop with the stats . Dont get me started on the MD-11 :wink: . You all probably know all this anyway

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[Guest]

Nice image Lee, I like the edit of the 2nd shot. The detail is nice in the 3rd image too.

I still can't beleive people are on the Bonus flights already. When you are flying do you just leave it (FS) running and check in from time to time?

I use Radar Contact and due to the amount of contact I can't really leave the cockpit as I never know when I will need to respond to ATC. This means that I don't usually like to fly the long haul stuff.

I am just going to complete the last few ASHA training flights with the Beech and I will head back to Africa and get going with the Heavy Metal Tour.

Well done on the progress of your HMT and keep the images coming, I enjoy a look at how your getting on and what your flying.

[Leemazz]

Thanks Darren as for the longhaulers your right i just let the ATC cancel my flightplan because lets be honest its nothing special the atc in Flightsim.

I check on my flight at least every 50 mins or my comp goes into idle which stops the AAS program , normally though im at my computer most of the time checking for flights and schedules as i manage alot of airlines at Airsource also bid flights

[AS275]

I use Radar Contact and due to the amount of contact I can't really leave the cockpit as I never know when I will need to respond to ATC. This means that I don't usually like to fly the long haul stuff.

You can always let your co-pilot fly whilst you are away from the cockpit. Happens in the real world. Ctrl-Shift-K hands all communications to the co-pilot and Ctrl-Shift-M hands the controls over. (Page 131 of the 2005 manual.) The same combinations get control back.

[Guest]

Wow Lee, I don't know how you fit it all in, but I sure am glad you do manage - its thanks to people like you that AirSource exisits.

Thanks for those great tips regarding Radar Contact, I will take a look at the manual again. It was such a lot of reading that I got the basics down and then got on with flying. Does the autopilot work on any plane or just the default FlightSim ones?

[AS275]

Don't know about 'any' but certainly on every aircraft I have used and that includes PMDG, Level-D and PSS - just follows the flightplan.