What was your longest non stop flight?

[goingnowherefast]

9.7 hrs airborne in a Hornet over Iraq and Syria.

I have to ask. How did you handle the call of nature?

I didn’t. I have done other longer flights (6-7+ hrs) and I never had to pee, and I don’t drink or eat: I am afraid to choke and well, there’s nothing I can really do if that happens.

People use pee bags or big bottles (gatorade for example (unstrap, piss, strap-in).

I've always been curious. Does the CF-18 and other aircraft in it's category have decent autopilot? Be a lot more difficult to pee and fly at the same time. I've done it in in a Cessna 185, but that's a bit different, lol.

Also, 9.7 hours would be quiet fatiguing all hand flown in a not-so-stable platform.

[AuxBatOn]

The F-18 Flight Control System is phenomenal. At cruise speed, stick force commands a given G so no flrce (hands off) means the aircraft willl hold 1G.It also has Heading/Altitude/Attitude/Coupled modes autopilot.

[OldTimr]

19.3 hrs. NATO E3A over Turkey/Afghanistan.

[Adiabatic]

7.2 CYHY-KGFK in a DC-3 and 5.8 (1951nm) CYRB-CYZX in a L188. Short distance alternate for the L188.

[nopilot]

The Catalina had an endurance of over 24 hours. The “Secret Order of the Double Sunrise” was a name bestowed to those who enjoyed a 24 hour trip on QANTAS operated Catalinas between Perth and Ceylon during the war.

New video just this week. It's like this guy is trolling Avcanada looking for video ideas.

[jspitfire]

6.7 hrs in the C208B survey flying out of Iqaluit.

Longest point to point is 5.4 hrs Yuma - CYEG in the Kingair 300.

[C.W.E.]

Just thought I would post another interesting question.

Mine was ninteen hours and ten minutes.

It was even more interesting considering it was flown with no autopilot.

And only an ADF ( With B.F.O. ) and an Astro Compass and sectional charts to navigate with.

[VSF]

CYYT to LPPD in a C208B, 8.7 hrs

[Lost in Saigon]

16:20 BOM-YYZ Feb 22 2018 777-233LR C-FNNH