The real test would be to set up MS Flight Simulator on a trip from LAX to Hong Kong on a moonless night over the black ocean for twelve hours and you do not touch the flight controls at all because it is the captains leg. You just sit there for hour upon torturous hour.

At the end of it all you are so ruined by the experience that all you want to do is get to the hotel room as fast as you can so that you can let the reparative qualities of sleep work to erase at least some of the mental damage you just endured but have to stand in the rain for 45 minutes because the hotel van is late.

Finally you get to your bedbug infested sheet stained room and murderously now lay painfully awake because it is broad daylight out and your brain is telling you to be up. That is the real test but we are not trying to drive the guy insane just give him a taste of what the glamorous world of airline life is about.

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