What was your longest non stop flight?

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What was your longest non stop flight?

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Just thought I would post another interesting question.

Mine was ninteen hours and ten minutes.
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7:20 and that’s more than long enough for me.
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8.5hrs in a glider
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8.5hrs in a glider
Mountain wave soaring?
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9.2 in a Dash8-100
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C.W.E. wrote: Mon Nov 26, 2018 7:15 pm Just thought I would post another interesting question.

Mine was ninteen hours and ten minutes.
Why didn't you drive a truck? It would have been much harder.
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dashtrash1 wrote: Mon Nov 26, 2018 7:57 pm 8.5hrs in a glider
I guess my 3.7 hrs from a 2500 ft tow isn't in the running :oops:
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14 hours.

A340 ferry flight from Bangkok to Madrid.
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Well I can’t even come close to the other posters but here are a couple of flights I did:

Cessna 180 on floats Ft. St.John to Flin Flon 6:00.
Cessna 180 on wheels Yuma AZ to Gillette WY 6:40. Then stuck in a blizzard for 3 days at the Gillette Super 8 waiting to go to YWG.

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7 hours even in a Cessna 337.

Two hours in the King Air seems long, now.

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.
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C.W.E. wrote: Mon Nov 26, 2018 8:03 pm Mountain wave soaring?
Nope, pure thermal flight in Southern Ontario a few years back. First to last thermal during the long June days.
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9 hours and change, DHC6 from CYOW-KMSY on the ferry to the deep south.

second longest was 8.5 in a F900 from CYOW-SPQT


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I start moaning "f&@$, are we there yet after 45 minutes......
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Depends on who I'm flying with. Sometimes 20 minutes seems like 2 hours. Sometimes it's the opposite.

After a out 2 hours, I'm saying "when are we gonna be there?" I could never do long haul, but to each, their own.
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C.W.E. wrote: Mon Nov 26, 2018 7:15 pm Just thought I would post another interesting question.

Mine was ninteen hours and ten minutes.
Wow! You are so amazing ..
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7.6 in a 172 doing continuous low level work. I slept well that night!
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Commercially, about 14 hours. Vancouver to Auckland.

As PIC, about 2.5 hours.

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Engines hardly count.

5.5 in a glider with a 2000' release. Wave up to 10k, caped by airspace in NZ. I wasn't prepared for the flight, so I had to return to pee.

8.5 flat land soaring is impressive!!
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about 10 hours, or something like that.

767-300 from vietnam to either sidney or melbourne.

not enough fuel in the plane to do 19 hours. 14 hours tops with no passengers or cargo. with an alternate in grandmas backyard next to the airport.
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Just a thought, but it would be great to have a glider forum on this site. I do not think I am the only one interested in it.
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