Problems with realistic flighttimes

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Lamal
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Problems with realistic flighttimes

Post by Lamal »

Hi,

I have a question about the flighttimes in fs. When I'm doing EDDF - EBBR, it takes me about 30 minutes to get there. But the real time timetable says that it should take a little less than an hour to fly the route.
Can it be that I'm flying to fast? FL was 220, speed below FL100 was 250 and above was 309.

Thanks,

Lamal

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Post by Comet »

Are you just calculating your time in the air? Or do you take into account push back and taxi to the runway, which also make up part of the time ("block time"? is it called) and taxi to the gate after arrival?
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Post by Lamal »

No, just from runway to runway.
But if you count the taxitime etc. it's app. the time given.

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Lamal

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Post by Skyfighter »

a departure time is the actual time that you should start pushback

So if you departure hour is 1400Z than you should start push at 1400Z

an arrival time is the actual time that you should arrive at the gate

So if you're arrival hour is 1500Z than you should be at the gate at 1500Z

But don't mind if the time isn't correct,the flight you did is about 30 minutes starting from airborne until touchdown.

The time in the table is to let people know they should be on time

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