For the past week, I’ve been flying back and forth to and from Hawaii from the U.S. I’m currently using the new custom/experimental A320 FBW mod and it’s pretty great I must say. For a while I avoided flying any long haul flights and in this case flights to Hawaii since they’re at least 5 hours (from the U.S. west coast). However, I finally decided I wanted to fly to Hawaii.
While yes, there’s a lot of downtime during cruise, I actually don’t mind it because it allows me to get other stuff done that I need to do. Before, I had been flying a lot of short-medium haul flights that were no more than 2.5-3 hours (occasionally over 3 hours). I found that I wasn’t able to get a lot of stuff done that I needed to because I was having to sit and monitor my flight to prepare for descent and arrival and not to step away and miss anything important.
So again, I’ve been able to do all kinds of things lately during my long, 5+ hour flights to Hawaii and back, but I’m still really enjoying the flights too. Maybe it’s not that realistic to step away for a few hours, I just have to time my arrival so I don’t miss it.
And now I really want to go to Hawaii IRL… lol 