After checking mid 50s Pan Am schedules, 10.2 LAX-HNL.
Longest time in glider: 6 hours using Southern Ontario thermals, but there's lots of Southern Ontario pilots who take off noon or before and come back around 8:30 when the days are long and the thermals are good.
Heliian wrote: ↑Fri Nov 30, 2018 7:46 am
25 minute hop with one of the most annoying loudmouths I've ever met. I actually isolated his side for half the journey.
AuxBatOn wrote: ↑Wed Nov 28, 2018 8:08 am
9.7 hrs airborne in a Hornet over Iraq and Syria.
I have to ask. How did you handle the call of nature?
Gliding guys use a relief tube. Something like a modified turkey baster with a tube .... also know as "The Polish Microphone"
External/Internal Catheters
Ziplock Bags
I know one guy that used saran wrap....don't ask me how. He said something along the lines of 8 twists gets it out the window and away from the glider before it unravels.
I recommend the bag from a Tim Horton's box of coffee. It has a wide opening with a cap. If that is too big, then the smaller opening wine bags will work for those that need it .
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AuxBatOn wrote: ↑Wed Nov 28, 2018 8:08 am
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).
AuxBatOn wrote: ↑Wed Nov 28, 2018 8:08 am
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.
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.
iflyforpie wrote: ↑Mon Nov 26, 2018 11:05 pm
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.