I just completed an eleven-hour (real-time, no sim-rate increases) flight across the Atlantic in the G-111. You can see the pics here. This was, by far, the longest flight for me in 2024.
It was a lot of fun - particularly the second half of the trip where I was flying through two storms systems (live weather & real time enabled for the flight).
I was a bit concerned about running out of fuel, but ended up with 282 gallons to spare (less the 18+ unusable gallons at the bottom of the six tanks) - about another 2 hours of flight-time.
Unlike other recent flights in the G-111, which were all in the 1-2 hour range where I left the fuel at the default 50% and was not concerned about fuel efficiency, for this flight I tried to be as fuel-efficient as possible and fly by-the-book (though - in the interest of time - my cruise MAP was 35 rather than 30), but would not have made the 2,300 NM that the G-111 with drops tanks is shown to be able to achieve - at my fuel burn rate, I calculate that I’d have run out at around 1,970 NM. My flying skills clearly need some improvement here!
[Edit: I’d also add that at the end of my flight, the floor of the cabin was amazingly clean - not a peanut shell, candy wrapper, empty crisp packet or puddle of spilt coffee to be seen:
Perhaps @Ramasurinen could use the same “window bug technology” available in MSFS 2024 to correct this!!!
