Nope. Hell you beat me. Longest single leg for me is LAX to Sydney. That said, it was 5.5 hrs to LAX from IAD (DC) with a layover. Painful.
One year, 2017 I believe, I did the IAD to Tokyo (15 hours just shy of LAX-SYD I believe) to Singapore and back flight THREE FUCKING TIMS!!!!!
It's 15 hours direct from Dulles to Tokyo, 5 hour layover, then another 7 to Singapore. It's 33 hours from home to hotel, and then do it all again in reverse 5 days later. And I did it 3 fucking tims in a calendar year. Lucky for me United splits that route with ANA, so at least on some legs I had hot Japanese geisha girls. Needless to say, I was Platinum 1K that year. I also did it all in lay flats in business class. Doing that flight back to back in coach is suicide worthy.
What did you fly, and what was its fuel range? F15?
F18
About 500-600 miles depending on how you throttled it. It is not known for its legs.
You ever fly out of Whidbey?
I have flown into and out of Whidbey. It's pretty cool landing there as you are over the water until right before touch down.
My hometown. You probably flew right over my house.
Nope. Hell you beat me. Longest single leg for me is LAX to Sydney. That said, it was 5.5 hrs to LAX from IAD (DC) with a layover. Painful.
One year, 2017 I believe, I did the IAD to Tokyo (15 hours just shy of LAX-SYD I believe) to Singapore and back flight THREE FUCKING TIMS!!!!!
It's 15 hours direct from Dulles to Tokyo, 5 hour layover, then another 7 to Singapore. It's 33 hours from home to hotel, and then do it all again in reverse 5 days later. And I did it 3 fucking tims in a calendar year. Lucky for me United splits that route with ANA, so at least on some legs I had hot Japanese geisha girls. Needless to say, I was Platinum 1K that year. I also did it all in lay flats in business class. Doing that flight back to back in coach is suicide worthy.
What did you fly, and what was its fuel range? F15?
F18
About 500-600 miles depending on how you throttled it. It is not known for its legs.
You ever fly out of Whidbey?
I have flown into and out of Whidbey. It's pretty cool landing there as you are over the water until right before touch down.
did you do the night landings outside Coupeville on the 'carrier' - supposedly that place is laid out for aircraft carrier practice.
I have sat there and watched them coming in doing touch and gos - kind of neat.
Longest flight - since I am not a good flyer I refrain from flying - but from Denver to Seattle for number 2's mom's funeral, sat next to a guy that was some hick from western Nebraska. First time flying. He would not shut up, when food and drinks came I hid in a magazine. He ate most of my dinner, asking every time "Are you going to eat that?". Then when I go to finish my drink it is gone - he says "I thought you were done I gave it to the stewardess." Flight attendants had replaced stewardess years earlier.
DXB to IAD, only a shade over 7000 miles, but like 14.5 hours.
I was coming from Singapore though, with s 5 hour layover in between, and I had stayed up all night the day before, so it was like 10,000 miles in total and I was jetlagged for like 3 days after I got back.
Portland to LAX to Sydney. Long day, but the landing in Sydney was a shit show.
Almost the entire flight was at night, so we couldn't really see anything, but about 2 hours out of Sydney it became pretty apparent from the rain hitting the window of the plane and the way we were bouncing around that the weather was ... not good.
About an hour out of Sydney, we were strapped in and it felt like we were inside of a clothes dryer.
I was flying with a bunch of guys I played basketball with (former Husky Todd Bridge was on the team) and we had the last 3 rows of the plane all to ourselves. From my seat, I could overhear the flight attendants in the galley behind me say something to the effect of, "they have to let us land, we don't have any fuel to go anywhere else". No. Shit.
On our descent, the wind was so violent that my stomach remained in my throat for long periods of time. When we broke through the clouds we were nearly on the runway and through the dim light of sunrise it was pretty clear that we were in the midst of something that I assumed was a monsoon.
We hit the runway and the plane began fish-tailing. 7 distinct swerves (the sound of screeching tires included), right, left, right, left, right, left, right. Overhead bins all opened and spilled their contents into the aisles. 1 of the drink carts from the galley broke lose and shot down one aisle before hitting debris from the overhead bins. All of this was accentuated by screams from several passengers.
Absolutely terrifying. TERRIFYING.
We found out as we disembarked that all air traffic had been grounded because of the storm. However, we were running on empty and landing in that storm was our only option. Most physically and emotionally draining 17 hours of my life.
My butt puckers with memories of that experience every time I fly.
Longest one leg was Frankfurt to LAX. A little less than 12 hours. Longest travel experience, flew overnight from Seattle to Frankfurt, picked up my car in parking lot, drive to Brussels airport (4 hours away) to pick up girlfriend, drive back home to Germany (2.5 hours back home). Fuck that was a long day.
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I have sat there and watched them coming in doing touch and gos - kind of neat.
Longest flight - since I am not a good flyer I refrain from flying - but from Denver to Seattle for number 2's mom's funeral, sat next to a guy that was some hick from western Nebraska. First time flying. He would not shut up, when food and drinks came I hid in a magazine. He ate most of my dinner, asking every time "Are you going to eat that?". Then when I go to finish my drink it is gone - he says "I thought you were done I gave it to the stewardess." Flight attendants had replaced stewardess years earlier.
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I was coming from Singapore though, with s 5 hour layover in between, and I had stayed up all night the day before, so it was like 10,000 miles in total and I was jetlagged for like 3 days after I got back.
Almost the entire flight was at night, so we couldn't really see anything, but about 2 hours out of Sydney it became pretty apparent from the rain hitting the window of the plane and the way we were bouncing around that the weather was ... not good.
About an hour out of Sydney, we were strapped in and it felt like we were inside of a clothes dryer.
I was flying with a bunch of guys I played basketball with (former Husky Todd Bridge was on the team) and we had the last 3 rows of the plane all to ourselves. From my seat, I could overhear the flight attendants in the galley behind me say something to the effect of, "they have to let us land, we don't have any fuel to go anywhere else". No. Shit.
On our descent, the wind was so violent that my stomach remained in my throat for long periods of time. When we broke through the clouds we were nearly on the runway and through the dim light of sunrise it was pretty clear that we were in the midst of something that I assumed was a monsoon.
We hit the runway and the plane began fish-tailing. 7 distinct swerves (the sound of screeching tires included), right, left, right, left, right, left, right. Overhead bins all opened and spilled their contents into the aisles. 1 of the drink carts from the galley broke lose and shot down one aisle before hitting debris from the overhead bins. All of this was accentuated by screams from several passengers.
Absolutely terrifying. TERRIFYING.
We found out as we disembarked that all air traffic had been grounded because of the storm. However, we were running on empty and landing in that storm was our only option. Most physically and emotionally draining 17 hours of my life.
My butt puckers with memories of that experience every time I fly.
Here's the details of the storm, if anyone cares: http://www.extremestorms.com.au/major-flooding-5th-august-1986-sydney/
CSB.
Longest travel experience, flew overnight from Seattle to Frankfurt, picked up my car in parking lot, drive to Brussels airport (4 hours away) to pick up girlfriend, drive back home to Germany (2.5 hours back home). Fuck that was a long day.
forgot one
*I love Brittney, so don’t twist, but she’s a performer, not a real singer.
There's a great story there. Deserves own thread.
i dont recall going through customs in sing and almost missed the return flight cause i was pounding johnnie gold in the sing air lounge at 6am.
i havent flown 1st on sing/emirates/etc but air travel is pretty much downhill once you fly biz on a non-us carrier.