Real time or your time

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I am just wondering if you all fly in your own personal time or in the real would time. I am just starting to fly real time instead of my time which is mostly daylight. I always had trouble seeing the runways for landing. Having the moon out sure helps a lot now.

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Same. I do real time to keep itā€¦well, real. :)

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I do real time unless I am landing/taxiing and canā€™t see a thing.

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Well thats the thing, with the moon I can see it all. It is actually better than at mid dawn or dusk for some reason.

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It really depends for me, if Iā€™m doing a real life flight I set the time to what time the plane departs. If not I set it to noon.

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mixture for me. if itā€™s to train I have never seen before itā€™s personal time otherwise actual

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I always take the real time of the flight.

So if schedule says departure 10:30, Iā€˜ll set my time to 10:10 in the beginning to lift off right on schedule then :)

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Isnā€™t departure time the time when the plane leaves the gate?

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Here is when I use my times and why:

Real-time:
It is very nice to do flights in real time, I use it often for shorter flights where I will be by the device the whole time, it is more realistic. However, I have to turn my brightness up though because I normally play my iPad with the brightness all the way down to save battery.

Day:
I use day mode a lot when it is too dark to taxi I switch it to day for my taxi so I donā€™t get lost. I also use day on touch and goes so I can see more, and I sometimes use day mode for shorter flights.

Night:
If I do an overnight flight I will switch the time to just after sunset and turn the brightness all the way down to conserve battery life, prevent heating, and try to limit screen burn-in which I havenā€™t had any yet.

Sunset/Sunrise:
I rarly use them, but if I am flying over a pretty or scenic spot Iā€™ll switch for some nice pictures ;)

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That would rather be off-block time. ;)

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I use real time for a realistic experience. The bad thing is, other than weekends, I donā€™t get of work till late so Iā€™m always flying at night. The Moon is a lifesaver. Iā€™m still hoping for taxiway lights in the near future.

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I fly in real world time

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I usually use real time, unless Iā€™m taxiing.

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Real time is great, however seeing landmarks and airports can be a little tricky sometimes.

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When the airport Iā€™m in at the time of my spawn is in night, Iā€™ll use ā€œDayā€ option while taxiing and taking off, before switching back to ā€œNightā€ (Real Time). But other than that, I always use Real Time unless itā€™s too dark to see

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Real time because I want realism

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I mostly fly during the evening after work. AndbI donā€™t like flying at night. There are some reasons for that:

  1. The landing lights do not lighten up the runway. There are no taxi lights.

  2. The ground lighs arenā€˜t very realistic yet

  3. There are no city lights. Everything is just black. Why would I want that if I can have a beautiful scenery?

The only time I fly at night is when Iā€™m sleeping during a long haul flight.

Thatā€™s why I donā€™t use real time a lot

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I fly real time, unless the whole flight will be in complete darkness.

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I take any extra realism the game has to offer so I use the current time. But like @Kyle.Plane said, not if the whole flight is complete darkness