I do everything on my own. Before the flight I look at the weather on my path. Decide what altitudes and when to climb. I do speeds, potential alternates, and cruise altitude. Once I’m done with that I do fuel and load it takes me about 20-1 hour. On long hauls it’s usally an hour. As a pilot in flight school I do everything on my own. Simbrief is also very reliable though.
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I also do this. It gives you a more exact time.
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I usually look where it’s busiest, then I hop on simbrief and look for suitable airports within about an hours reach, get everything calculated, and from hopping on simbrief to pushback, about 20 mins or so.
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I usually spend 10-15 minutes finding a flight that departs about 45 minutes from when I find it, if it is in the US, Mexico, Australia, Guam, the Caribbean, or New Zealand, I get the flight plan from FlightAware, if not I use the default simbrief plan or I use SkyVector to plan it based on the last time the flight was flown. I then gather information from Flightradar24 on runways in use by the departure and arrival airports, plan those. If the airline is not an airframe I have made for that aircraft in simbrief, I make it based on a default airframe for that aircraft which has all of the Infinite Flight weights or that aircraft, and I change the name and registration of the aircraft based on the airline and registration in game. I change the number of seats based on the seat maps made by seat guru. I change the OFP layout based on the airline, if it is not there, I use the LIDO OFP layout. I enter the flight plan and weights into Infinite Flight, and weight for the flight to depart. Once I see that it has departed on the flight tracker, I wait about 5 minutes so that I can be behind it to see its every move, from altitude to speed to taxi path.
TL;DR I spend too much time flight planning and even more waiting. :)
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I can get a realistic flight together in like 3 minutes in it’s a short haul.
I usually spend ~10-20 minutes on long hauls or flights that I want to be Ultra realistic.
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Between 5 and 15 minutes depending on the situation
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I’m so the same
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About 30 minutes for me. I quickly get a flight plan from FPLtoIF.com, which takes a couple minutes. Whenever I fly an airliner I like to fly realistically so I always spawn at the proper terminal, even if the nearest runway with headwinds is on the other side of the airport. Once I insert my flight plan I spend a few minutes managing fuel, passengers and cargo. Pushback and taxi takes anywhere from 5-20 minutes, depending on how long my pushback route is and how far away the designated departure runway is. Once I get in the air it’s been a solid 30 minutes since I began the flight.
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For me 15 minutes to an hour. Depends on how long the flight usually.
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For me it depends. On some flights it’s easier to get the flight info and make the FPL (which I make using SkyVector) and sometimes it takes longer. On average I usually take around 20-30 minutes to get ready before I even spawn in. If I’m wanting to do a long haul I usually prepare everything the day before. Yes, it actually takes me one whole day to get ready for a long haul.
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For me it depends on the type of flight I plan to do. Typically the average preflight time for me is 30 to 35 minutes. Easily an hour or more for long hauls.
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Close to 10 minutes maximum. Typically I load the FPL on the previous flight. Log my PiRep with the VA, and import the FPL, set my cruise altitude, set weight and balance, and get going.
Typically about an hour and a half for my DLVA long hauls, because I have to make a flightplan, check all the enroute weather, check alternates, get takeoff numbers, get loads, get charts organized etc
20-30 minutes at least. During this time I figure out the correct terminal for where I’m starting out at, finding a good flight plan, what the correct terminal for the destination terminal is for my airline, and actually spawning in and getting everything ready to go.
If I want to have a really good flight and not think “oh, I forgot this” then around 20 minutes getting ready but I have thought “no point in wasting time,” and got ready in less than 5 minutes.
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