Scudrunners

Mine was nineteen hours and ten minutes wheels up till wheels down.

What was yours?

Back in 1958, two crazy-ass bastards flew a 172 in Vegas for 64 days continuously.

https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all ... circa-1958

Imagine spending over 1500 hours in 172. Non-stop. Two months!

They win!

On the bright side, they got their ATPL requirement out of the way. In one flight.

DP, and not the fun kind where your balls touch.

I think 6.6 FLL-LAX.

Not a fan of that, definitely wouldn’t be a fan of long haul flying.

Ive done PBI - YYC at 6.2 or 6.4 a few times. You can do it sub 6 hours if you only got a few people on board but thats a long enough hang time for me.

15+59 - last week with the A340.

Not as bad as it sounds - 4+30 rest at top of climb. Was able to sleep quite well.

Amazing views of Siberia and Canadian Arctic. Aurora started right as we passed abeam Yellowknife.

Plenty to do keeping an eye on the fuel remaining and deciding when to climb higher. All worked out very nicely.

It is interesting how much different the terrain of Siberia is as compared to the Canadian Arctic.

Indeed - Siberia resembles Alaska. Beautiful - minmal signs of habitation.

This deserves some sort of mention: I remember talking to the captain (I think, may have been FO) in Namao years later…
Argus 20711: Serving with No. 407 (MP) Squadron, CFB Comox, when it set unofficial Canadian endurance record of 32 hours airborne on May 30 to June 1, 1974, on routine patrol and search for missing boat. Scrapped in 1982.

My longest flight by far was a twenty minute hop when I really had to poop.