Originally Posted by
SkyHigh
Try setting up MS fight simulator on a flight from LAX to JFK in a transport category jet. Start at around 11PM your local time and fly it in real time the entire night. You can only get up three times during the entire flight for short five minute breaks. It must be accomplished in a dark room with the autopilot on for all but three minutes of the flight.
No TV. No radio. No phone. No iPad. No one to talk to. Do not sleep !! Just you staring at a dark unchanging screen for 6 plus hours. That is what it is like to fly for the airlines.
Skyhigh
Skyhigh, i've used a example along these same lines to tell people what the job is like on long haul or the night freight ops. its amazingly close to real life.