When doing long haul people stay at only one altitude

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Guys please when u are doing long haul and ur awake please climb higher when ur later into ur flight i see a lot people staying at a single altitude for a 11 hours flight and it just break the realism

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What do you mean

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step climbing i believe

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I climb 33000 35000 37000 on the 777 and on a350 or 787 I do 35000 37000 40000 ft

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Climbing to a higher attitude once ur aircraft get lighter

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Well, usually, I like doing long-haul flights overnight, and well, Iā€™m not awake, unfortunately, to step climb. There are also times when we are too busy to tend to our devices. I understand your feeling, but thatā€™s how life goes, unfortunately. Only some people have the time to change altitudes.

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to be more realistic, if youā€™re flying west, then the cruising altitudes are even and below FL410 (unless supersonic). if flying east, then the cruising altitudes are odd (also below FL410)

https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/publications/atpubs/atc_html/chap4_section_5.html

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@BongAviation i may be wrong, but i believe in real life the aircraft only changes altitude when transitioning through airspaceā€™s. eg, Transitions from Shannon to New York Oceanic.

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Thatā€™s true but it apply with other airspaceā€™s thatā€™s why I recommend using FR24 to check what attitude the aircraft is when over a area

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Eventually we will have Vnav for step climb so while we are sleeping during long haul flights like I do the plane will climb for us

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Step climbing helps to save fuel when flying. Personally itā€™s a pilot decision whether or not to step climb. If they choose to be at a lower alt for longer then they will burn more fuel than needed

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I just watched Captain Joe on this very subject

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You have this around the wrong way

  • East (0-179M) is odd altitudes below FL410
  • West (180-359M) is even altitudes below FL410
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On a deployment flight, we were so heavy that when we departed Norfolk, we stopped in Gander, then Shannon, then Ramstein, then Budapest until Kuwait.

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Personally i climb to the desired alt from startā€¦eg from 10.000ft i input my speed to 320kts i know automatically on cruise it would be mach .85 when my desired alt is reached"arm my vnav when i wakeup il be like on 13000ft then i prepare for my landing.

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Nice troll post šŸ˜‚

If youā€™re actually serious, staying at one altitude is totally fine and doesnā€™t break realism on an mobile flight simulatorā€¦ Just move along or play something more advanced :) Also I donā€™t know why some of you actually started agreeing šŸ™„ā€¦

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No its not irl flight dont just stay at a single attitude bro ā€¦

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Well IRL and this mobile game are 2 totally different thingsā€¦ People canā€™t, wonā€™t and shouldnā€™t sit/check their mobile device hourly or whatever to change altitude just to be more ā€œrealisticā€. Realism definitley has itā€™s limits here with IF as a mobile game. Although a acension VNAV may ā€œhelpā€ this ā€œissueā€ it still shouldnā€™t bother you.

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Captain Joe the goat

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Thanks for teaching me something knew. I guess itā€™s used to help with organization