Good morning,
Firstly apologies if this is the wrong thread - this is a strange request but I'm not sure what other avenues to go down. I was recommended to post here by BALPA who I contacted first.
I have been a flight simulation enthusiast for a number of years (presently flying for British Airways Virtual - BAV). However I would like to add as much realism to virtual operations as I can.
What I'm hoping to find out are procedures that crews follow during cruise. Flight Sim is detailed but can lack in some areas. For example you can create a detailed flightplan using a service called Simbrief which gives you your zero fuel weight, waypoints and times etc but what I'd really like to know is what crews do once they are up to cruise level, especially on longer flights e.g. EGLL to KSFO. I know there's handoffs between atc areas but am interested to find out what else goes on i.e. they have times on the flightplan for each waypoint - do they note down the actual time they pass that waypoint for later analysis? How is waypoint reporting done when flying on north atlantic tracks?
If there is any information that you could provide I'd really appreciate it and would feed it back to my fellow simmers in BAV.
As I said, strange request
However other than fixed wing gliding which I had to give up due to cost I'm never going to be able to fly airliners for real.
Kind regards.