Like many others, I always fly realistic routes and pushback based on the real departure time. However, every time the long haul flight lands on the next day I seem to somehow skip an hour during the flight. Let me elaborate with my most recent flight as an example, LH425 from Boston to Munich:
I pushback slightly delayed at 22:07 and after a fairly long taxi to 33L, take off at ca. 22:30 (20 minutes late). Our flight time of only 6hrs and 30mins (compared to the route average of 7 hours) means we should be making up most of our delay. However, I land at 10:55 local time, over an hour behind schedule? Based on my delay and flight time, it seems reasonable to suggest that the time has skipped EXACTLY one hour because a 9:55 arrival time would’ve been slightly delayed from schedule.
This seems to happen on every long haul flight where the flight lasts into the following day (Flying from europe to USA doesn’t have this issue for example). Is anyone else experiencing this?
Before you say this should be in the support category: this is not a technical issue, so, based on the category’s description, I didn’t deem the support category relevant. More than happy to relocate the topic if I was wrong
Just to add: When you select current time in Dusseldorf, its only 1 hour ahead of GMT and thus one hour behind the actual current time.
Also, I’m currently hopping from Geneva to Frankfurt, same timezone and the flight takes 1 hour, yet I will land approximately 1 hour behind schedule. To me, this confirms that there is a ‘time glitch’ in the game.
If a staff member could move this topic to the support category that would be golden :)
I moved it for you. Could this be because of the game not registering DST properly? Right now Europe is DST which is where your DUS issue is probably coming from. I’m not sure what’s going on with your BOS-MUC flight. I think maybe because the US is on DST in mid March, the game thinks the two places are 6 hours apart when they’re really 5? I’m like 90% sure this is some DST issue I just don’t know how exactly.
This was posted March 19th so at that time, the US was already in DST as of March 10th as opposed to Europe which doesn’t start DST until March 31. This is not a glitch and would’ve happened in real life because of the difference in time zones now being only 5 hours instead of the usual 6. This will return to normal after March 31st but the IRL flight schedules should account for this
It’s really weird because I just did the flight back from Frankfurt to Geneva (same timezone and same timezone as DUS). I depart at 1200 → The flight takes exactly 45 minutes → I touchdown at 1345. It seems wherever I fly, even on such a short flight, the clock skips an hour during the time I’m in the air.
Another possible theory I have, relating to this:
what if the game hasn’t adjusted to the fact that British Summer Time is in effect since March 31st, which means CET is +2 hours ahead of GMT (+1 ahead of BST). When I cross the border to another country, the time adjusts to the local timezone and in that process, suddenly does recognise that the European timezone is actually 2 hours ahead of GMT, therefore skipping the hour mid flight as mentioned. Maybe I have to hop within a country (Munich to Frankfurt for ex.) to test this theory.
Either way; thank you both for the discussion @AndrewWu@Josh_Suarez and maybe we’ll get a staff member to check it out.