Global - doing a long flight with multiple pilots

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As a future feature, I propose the following idea:

A pilot wants to do a long haul flight and plans this a few days in advance. He is the captain.
This captain, through some system, has than the ability to request co-pilots. Co-pilots who want to fly part of this flight, can fill-in an agenda or logbook where they commit themselves to a time and period to fly a stretch.

When the day and time is there, the captain can depart on his long haul flight knowing that in 3 hours the next pilot will take over for a period of time.

This is a big feature, I realise that.
But how else are you going to fly a long flight? No pilot flies for 10 hours, right?

And yes, it has challenges as well:

  • how do the pilots communicate
  • what happens if a co-pilot doesn’t turn up
  • what rights to co-pilots have? Can they change the FPL?

Anyway…shoot and vote! ;-)

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The way I interpret this is a feature request so it should go under #features

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Yep, it’s a feature request.

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There we go, moved it…

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I would love to see a 2 man cockpit. Being able to hand controls from one another is just fantastic. But it’s a big stretch for the devs I think

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Agreed. I’m improvising by screen sharing my device with my friends through Google Hangout. They does the checklists and stuff. ;)

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This is something similar, but your topic speaks more from the global perspective! I’d really love to have this for global!

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Nice, realistic, In a 747 there’s a backup captain and first officer onboard

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This is a great idea, probably would take a while to implement but the wait should be worth it :p

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This is a truly fantastic idea! The only thing is that it kind of seems like a stretch for the developers to implant into the simulator at this stage.

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They’ve managed to recreate the world. Who’s to say they can’t do this? 😉👍

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Haha, fair point there xD

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I personally think it would just be cool to be able to be a passenger on the flight and go flight to flight looking as a none controllable person

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I would like to see 2 men in the cockpit. lol

But yea. Great idea. Hope they implement this. I would hate to fly a 12 hour flight solo.

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Basically shared cockpit

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I would too love to see this feature
But this might take awhile
Just imagine creating a system where you could share a flight

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There is something called LNAV, and it’s mainly about time management when doing long flights in sims ;)

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Nice!
Sounds like a feature request to me!

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This is why Laura added LNAV! There is No need for this feature :)

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I like the idea, but surely you could just do shorter flights?
For example, you might want to do LHR-DXB, but you don’t have the time, so you could stop off at Istanbul.
And then the next day you do Istanbul to Dubai

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