Death Cruiser Flight Crew
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Vaucluse, France.
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I've just compared the enormity of this scheduled duty with one that I look back on as a right cracker: MAN-TLV-MAN in a 737-200ADV with an aux tank. It was a daylight flight, max scheduled FDP 13 hours 15 minutes, round-trip distance approximately 4200 n.m. i.e. some 900 n.m. less. My logbook shows a total block time of 11 hours 10 minutes, and I remember filing a captain's discretionary report for exceeding the scheduled FDP. The 737-200's cruise was M0.73, i.e. much the same as previously quoted for the Challenger's long-range cruise.
My goodness, these pilots were given some task.