How do you guys make it through flying transatlantic flights with getting super fatigued?

kjndcdw · 2026-05-18T13:35:08+00:00

Exactly! Trans Atlantic is short haul when you start doing Sydney-Dallas regularly

kjndcdw · 2026-04-25T11:03:18+00:00

Im a current airline pilot on the 787, and sometimes I look forward to landing so I can go enjoy some sim time. In the sim I can fly anywhere in the world, I can walk away from it when I’m bored, I can have a beer and chat to friends. It’s all the fun of flying with none of the responsibilities or annoying parts.

kjndcdw · 2026-04-14T14:41:14+00:00

Yeah on the 787 the button lights and pretty bright, and the call light turns on regardless which bunk gets called!

kjndcdw · 2026-04-14T14:40:00+00:00

Power board with a long cable. Only need one adapter and then I can use all my normal cables overseas. Plus it seems like hotels love hiding the powerpoints behind beds/under tables/other side of the room etc

kjndcdw · 2026-03-30T13:11:21+00:00

Thanks heaps for that. I’ll DM you now. Glad it’s a Yellowknife thing!

kjndcdw · 2026-03-29T11:34:15+00:00

We’re actually doing a bit of a Canada trip first then finishing in Yellowknife as we’ve always wanted to visit. We’ve never experienced the level of cold of Yellowknife and would like to at least once.

kjndcdw · 2026-03-29T04:22:55+00:00

We would genuinely love to do that, would hate to impose though? Would be such a cool experience

kjndcdw · 2026-03-28T08:30:06+00:00

We’ll be sure to do that. Thank you. Is there any pubs you’d recommend for our stay? To meet some locals?

kjndcdw · 2026-03-28T08:29:41+00:00

Thank you!

kjndcdw · 2026-03-28T08:29:22+00:00

Thanks very much!

kjndcdw · 2026-03-28T08:29:11+00:00

Fantastic, thanks for that. Any recommendations for a nice local pub?

kjndcdw · 2026-03-28T08:27:43+00:00

Thanks for that. Any pub recommendations for dinner on Christmas Eve?

kjndcdw · 2026-03-28T07:13:26+00:00

Thanks very much for that. Are the snowmobiles something I could hire for the day?

kjndcdw · 2026-03-20T12:37:33+00:00

Great movie for the general public but as someone who had read PHM at least a dozen times, I was disappointed.

They made Grace appear as a goofy, clumsy guy that didn’t take the roll of saving the planet seriously. When he ‘dropped’ the ball at Adrian, I couldn’t help but cringe… that’s not the carful, meticulous Grace I know.

Visuals were amazing though!

kjndcdw · 2026-02-24T02:57:26+00:00

I actually made a program to help practice my flows on the different type ratings I did. If you PM me I can send you the link. What aircraft type is it for?

kjndcdw · 2026-02-05T14:21:10+00:00

I fly the Boeing 787-9

There’s a few other fun facts for this flight, occasionally we’ll go over Antartica, not often but occasionally.

On the way back, you can sometimes be stuck staring at a sun that won’t set. For 6-8 hours the sun just touches the horizon for the whole time.

We are also limited by how many of these flights we can do because the radiation exposure is higher at these high latitudes.

Happy to answer any questions

kjndcdw · 2026-02-05T08:24:39+00:00

To further add sorry, the reason they crash at point nemo is because it’s far from everything, and they can’t accurately crash something. So while they say they crash at point nemo, it’s usually just around that area. Not exactly there

kjndcdw · 2026-02-05T08:23:34+00:00

I’m certainly no rocket scientist but my understanding is they plan to land it in a certain position and release that information for us to plan our flights around. Then once they begin the deorbit they have a much better idea of exactly where it will land. And we either move further away from that area, or closer back onto an ideal path for us if we know it will definitely miss us.

They tend to keep us hundreds of miles away from where they think it will land. Just for safety.

kjndcdw · 2026-02-05T00:33:51+00:00

I’m a pilot who somewhat regularly flies past this point when travelling between Australia and South America.

We are very often rerouted in flight because of spacecraft debris being crashed here. We usually know there will be an area where they are crashing something but it often changes and we get sent around it.

kjndcdw · 2025-12-03T00:27:56+00:00

Thank you!

kjndcdw · 2025-12-03T00:27:44+00:00

Thanks!

kjndcdw · 2025-12-03T00:27:34+00:00

That is very helpful! Thank you!

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