This manual and all of its contents are provided to enhance the enjoyment of the simulated airline experience, and are the property of Noble Air. No portions of this manual may be copied, transmitted, republished, or reproduced by any means without the express written consent of the Noble Air Board of Directors. © Copyright 2005

TABLE OF CONTENTS

I.    Introduction

The original UK Hub of Noble Air, along with Europe North and Europe South, emerged from a restructuring of the highly successful European Hub when it became a victim of its own success and too large for one Hub Captain to manage. The division into three hubs was necessary in order to cope with the increasing numbers of pilots who wish to fly for Noble Air in Europe. Now following the departure of Noble UK's HC, the UK is further divided into four passenger hubs and a cargo operation. This document represents the manual for the London Heathrow Hub, catering for passenger operations.

Although the Hub is primarily oriented around FS2004 & FS2002, users of older versions of Microsoft Flight Simulator who have a good range of UK and European scenery can also be accommodated. The wealth of add-on scenery areas and the vast range of freeware FSFS aircraft (including many in our own Noble livery) offers a very diverse variety of flying for the simulated airline pilot.

This manual relates only to the specific procedures that are used by Noble Air pilots who have opted to be based at the Noble Heathrow hub. If you wish to know more about the way Noble Air works, then first read the General Operations Manual contained in NBLOPS.ZIP. This file, and others relating to flight simulation in general and Noble Air in particular, can be found at the following sources:

On the Internet there are many places to find flight simulator files - Some of the best sites that have a large number of add-ons and utilities include:

II.    How the Heathrow Hub operates

Although Sunday is the normal weekly day for updates, you will find that the Noble Heathrow Hub’s pages will be updated regularly. The Hub Captain’s Newsletter will be updated weekly. Hours and assignments are currently updated weekly.  Pilots should read the news, check their accumulated hours for accuracy, and obtain their flight assignments.  Any questions should be addressed by Email to the Hub Captain or the appropriate department head.

Flight Assignments are uploaded to the Assignments page on a weekly basis in accordance with the stated preferences of each pilot as to frequency and length of route. You will be given a flight number and destination. The full details for each flight can be found in the Noble Air - London Heathrow Routes available for download at the main hub page. This document may be downloaded along with the Scenery List, which will give options for default and third party scenery--both commercial and freeware--covering all of the Hub’s destinations.

Occasionally, a Charter may be assigned, and the particulars of the flight will be detailed on the Assignments Page. 

For experienced pilots weather limitations, night flying, navigation in areas without VOR/NDB navaids, or the occasional emergency may be included.  As hours build up, you will find that the complexity or difficulty of your flights will increase to maintain a sense of challenge. These will be related to rank so senior captains can expect more difficult problems. This build up is progressive and will not be enforced if it pushes you beyond your personal limits. The intention is to keep the simulation challenging, while maintaining the fun and enjoyment that simulated airline flying brings.

Once your allocated routes are completed, feel free to request charters to other destinations, or self-assign further routes from the flight schedule. Assignments to unscheduled charter operations will be made in line with the pilots stated preferences.

Pilots can request to fly domestic, short, medium or long haul routes, or a mixture of these. Domestic and short haul are less than two hours duration, medium from two to four, and long haul over four hours. These times are one way. Assignments usually involve a round trip.

Your weekly assignment may include a check ride.  If you find this notation, simply record (video) your approach, landing, and taxi to the arrival gate, commencing 10 DME from the airport.   Send copies of the completed video to the Hub Captain and Assistant Hub Captain-Operations, noting details of aircraft type, radio settings, and weather, so that your flight may be duplicated in playback.  A copy of the video will be returned to you with comments. 

Extended operations are actively encouraged. Our schedule, the most extensive in the airline, includes flights into every continent, but Antarctica.  These longer flights will be a challenge, but the sense of achievement after arriving safely will make the effort worthwhile.

Around The World Flights.  An impressive number of Heathrow Hub pilots have completed circumnavigations. Pilots who have successfully flown around the world are entitled to a special stamp on their promotion certificates and the addition of a G (Global) suffix to their Noble Pilot ID number and wings.  Known colloquially as RTW's ('Round The World's), these flights may be accomplished by whatever routing and aircraft a pilot wishes.  Our pilots have completed RTW's using all scheduled Noble Flights, bidding on or requesting some legs from other Hubs; in World War II era planes; and even over the poles.  The choice is yours.  Pilots intending to commence their Global flight should notify the HC so that flight assignments may be suspended for the duration, then file a normal (so to speak!) flight report upon their return.   Some Noble Hubs have imposed certain restrictions on RTW's, saying such things as that the whole flight must be flown in just one aircraft etc.  Here at the London Heathrow Hub of Noble Air, we accept that flying with the Airline is FUN, and as a result of this, our rules state simply that you must take off, fly at least 18,000 miles and return back to Heathrow from roughly the opposite direction from which you left to be awarded your G suffix.  Simple!  It has also been pointed out that ideally you should make the same number of landings as you do take-offs, but I'm sure we are just being picky there.

Flights may also be undertaken to other Noble Air hubs.  Pilots can elect to transfer, permanently or temporarily (subject to vacant positions existing and acceptance by the receiving Hub) by notifying their present hub captain.  There is no problem in continuing a flight from Europe to Africa, Asia, the US or the Caribbean and staying there for a few weeks.  Just post a request with your flight report. Do remember to read the Operations Manual of any hub to which you wish to transfer.

Questions regarding the accomplishment of flights should be directed to the Assistant Hub Captain / Operations if appointed.   If you need help with any aspect of your flight assignment, please feel free to contact the AHC/Ops by E-mail, ICQ, or by posting a message in the LHR Pilot's Lounge

London Heathrow, EGLL, is Headquarters and International Centre of the hub.  Over 530 Noble flights operate to and from LHR serving more than 330 major cities on every continent except Antarctica.  Aircraft types operating from Heathrow range from commuter types like the SAAB 340B to the B747-400 and Concorde. Heathrow departing and arriving flights carry the flight number prefix NA.

London City, EGLC, is the Continental Commuter Base of the Hub. Over 140 flights serve more than 90 European destinations with aircraft certified by the C.A.A. for the special operating conditions in force at this small airport in the heart of the city. London City routes carry the flight number prefix NAC.

Southend, EGMC, is the UK Regional and Holiday Hub which serves over 190 cities in Great Britain and the prime tourist destinations in Europe, utilising small and medium turbo-prop and jet aircraft up to the B757-200. All Southend originating and destined flights have the prefix NAS.

Stanstead, EGSS is the departure airport for some Cargo flights which serve destinations all round the world using our Cargo fleet. Cargo flights often involve multiple destinations in one assignment so giving a bit more interest to the flight. Cargo flights from Stanstead usualyy have the prefix NA.

The Noble London Heathrow System Flight Schedule  is broken down into several sections, corresponding to these bases of operation and whether the flights are World, European, domestic or Cargo operations.  They may be obtained on the Download Page by clicking the appropriate link.  The downloaded files will contain schedules in MS Word, Write, and text formats.  Instructions and important notes concerning the use of the Flight Schedule will be found at the end of that document. Please read and adhere to these instructions.  Among these are:

All times in the schedule are UTC, otherwise known as GMT - Greenwich Mean Time, or Zulu.   Flights are ordered in round-trip pairs, alphabetically listed by DESTINATION ONE cities.

Many cities have more than one major airport. Careful attention should therefore be paid to the four-character ICAO codes for destination airports during flight planning. In some cases, Noble LHR serves more than one airport in a given city. Some examples of these are Rome-Fiumicino (LIRF) and Ciampino (LIRA); and Washington-Dulles (KIAD) and National (KDCA).

DEPART and ARRIVE times specify engine start-up and shut-down times, not take-off and landing times

V.  Aircraft

Noble Heathrow Pilots are strongly encouraged to use company aircraft to complete flight assignments. In normal operations, the type of aircraft designated for a scheduled flight should be used. However, equipment changes may be made for operational reasons at the discretion of the Pilot In Command (you).  Be sure to report on such equipment substitutions in the remarks section of your Flight Report .

Noble Aircraft are available at the Aircraft Library of the main Noble Air pages at http://www.nobleair.com/   You will find aircraft designed or converted for FS2002 and FS2004. Many great aircraft have been designed or repainted for Noble in our billboard livery.  However, it is an unfortunate truth that aircraft created for one version of FS, do not always convert well to another. Some early aircraft refuse to ground steer, or have severe instability in the air, when converted to the newer sim.  There are programs available to allow changing of some characteristics--tweaking of the flight model. Noble livery aircraft may also be found at various other Noble Hubs. The quality of aircraft can vary markedly, so pilots should exercise caution until thoroughly familiar with the flight characteristics of a given aircraft. 

Noble Air - London Heathrow Aircraft Packages  A growing collection of aircraft packages assembled and developed specially for the pilots of Noble Air can be found in the hangar section of the main Noble Air site. Each package combines some of the best freeware aircraft, panels, and accessories available.  They are assembled in a zipped which can be unzipped and then installed to the proper directories on your computer.  Packages are frequently updated by new versions, usually as a result of updates in their component programs.

Each package consists of a Noble aircraft in company "Billboard" livery, complete with British registration letters.  Often, the flight models and textures have been modified and enhanced for Flight Sim and are available only in these packages in this form.  Working landing lights have been engineered and installed in each plane, and some include special sound collections.  There is a checklist developed in conjunction with a real world airline pilot.  It has pages for each phase of the flight and a handbook page listing specifications and performance parameters of the aircraft.  (Activate and cycle through the pages with Shift C on your keyboard)

Some package planes have been equipped with customized and enhanced versions of the finest freeware panels available.  These special panels, created by  arrangement with their designers, can be obtained only in the packaged aircraft.  Each bears a plate with the matching registration of the aircraft and a Noble logo.

Planes and panels included in the packages do not require conversion before installation, however, you may wish to customise the packages with your preferred choice of panel and sound files.

The components of these packages are the property of and subject to the conditions placed upon them by their designers.  All original copyrights, other rights, privileges, and restrictions apply.  When required, permission has been obtained by the Hub to utilise programs and files in these packages.  Every one of these talented, generous freeware developers has freely given permission and the only restrictions have been that their work remain freeware and credit be properly given.   Our sincerest thanks to them all.

VII.    Scenery

There are many sites where add-on scenery can be downloaded for many of the LHR System destinations. These include FS default, commercial, shareware, and freeware scenery. In most cases, there is freeware or default scenery available for the airports we serve, and nearly every day, one or more new sceneries become available at these sites.

VIII.    Recommended Third Party Programmes

Other files that will make assignments easier, more interesting, or more enjoyable to fly include:

Panels - Cockpit panels are appearing regularly on most on line services now for all versions of FS. Outstanding places to see a lot of different panels are Flightsim.com and Avsim.com which have libraries of the panels available for download at that site. It is possible to find freeware or shareware panels for just about every plane in the Noble stable. These panels offer new features and capabilities, not to mention enhanced realism, beyond what is offered by the stock default panels, in many cases.

Sounds - It’s no fun flying a large jet airliner while your ears hear a Learjet, or sitting in a DC-3 while listening to a Cessna. Because of this there are a lot of additional sound files that can be downloaded at the same sites to replace the default sounds. It is a great improvement to get the whole house shaking as you wind up the engines on the DC-3 during the takeoff roll!

Utilities - Some new, amazing programmes to make the FS flyers life more interesting, easier, (or sometimes more complicated) also appear at these sites.  Some will no doubt become indispensable to you.  One of the most useful is an utility called FSUIPC,   by  Peter Dowson.  Many of the utilities and panels used in FS2004 will require prior installation of FSUIPC before they will work prroperly. The file is available at http://www.schiratti.com/dowson.html . There are also many add-ons available to enhance your flying experience with things such as environment sounds, cabin announcements, flight planning and much more, the list is endless.

Aircraft Performance Table   A table listing 12 different flight performance figures for 63 different aircraft types in the Noble fleet. These are real world figures taken from authoritative sources which can be used in flight planning and operation. Included are MTOW, MLW, Range, Ceiling, Vr, Vcruise, Vcruise Econ, Mmo, Vmo, Vref, Vsi, and Vs, along with an explanation of the terms, and tips from a Certified Flight Instructor. 

Flight Levels- Description An explanation of the Flight Level system used in real world aviation, easily adapted to Noble operations. Available at the Noble Library.

ICAO Airport Codes-Complete World Listing A complete listing of 7,910 airports and their four letter codes. Available from the Noble Library.

Flight planning is an indispensable part of every route you fly.  There are a number of programmes available to assist in this process.  Some, but by no means all, of these are:

FSNavigator, by Chris Brett, provides the long sought after Electronic Flight Instrument System and Flight Management Computer that the big boys have had, and we h

EFIS, by Chris Brett, provides the long sought after Electronic Flight Instrument System and Flight Management Computer that the big boys have had, and we haven’t. It includes vertical navigation and an interface with the autopilot so that the aircraft will follow the waypoints you input, at the altitudes you have set for them, then line up at the Final Approach Fix at a preset distance, altitude, and speed. It will utilise Standard Instrument Departures (SIDs) and Standard Arrivals (STARs) from a growing database on the EFIS webpage. The EFIS display is a CRT you place on you panel which shows your route, waypoints, and airports along the way, along with speed and distance readouts to the waypoint and final destination as well as a readout of wind speed and direction arrow.

NAV1.8, by Ted Wright, creates a database by reading all the BGL files on the system (or as many as you tell it to!) and allowing you to route from departure to destination. It seems very accurate and unlike Winplanner it doesn't need Magnetic Variation entered for each point - It reads the master FS MagVar database and calculates from that. It will display which scenery file the navaids are in which helps enormously when checking for duplication. When used in conjunction with Fs6ipc.dll, by Adam Szofran, it can lock on and fly directly to waypoints that you set.

Winplanner, by Airsoft, is a Windows flight-planning program which allows a route to be planned via VORs, NDBs, intersections or airports. It has a host of other facilities including logbook, fuel burn calculations, manual or automatic flight plan creation and correct calculation of wind effect. A professional program, it takes its navaid information from its own database (it does not scan BGLs like NAV 1.8). The database can be amended or added to in two ways - manual input of data using the built in editor or the importing of data from BGLs, text or MS Access files uploaded on the forum. If you are serious about your flight planning I recommend that you take a look at this program. Recent amendments have been made to allow the program to work with the ATC facility in FSFS.

Final Approach, by Georges Lorsche.  Final Approach lets you design, display and print realistic approach charts for use with FS. Create your own charts or select from over 3000 charts from all over the world.  The current version features data transfer to FSW95/98, visibility/RVR minima in US or European format, rotated text, arcs, and preview & search functions.

Flightplanner, by Math Maessen.  Flightplanner makes it possible to generate a nice flight plan for FS95/98. The Flight planner makes use of three important parts: a dbase, a map and a flight. The program generates a dbase from your own *.BGL-files. That means: You’ll see the Nav’s you actually have in your sceneries and you won’t have the problem of missing waypoints.

Pilots should investigate and test programs themselves, or ask other pilots about their experience with planners they use.

Inexperienced pilots may wish to fly in only good weather, but as they gain experience, pilots are encouraged to fly in changing and varied weather conditions. Random weather generation by the sim is one method, but there are better, more realistic ones.

An excellent site for general airport and weather information is Tom Dawes-Gamble’s page.  The airport name, ICAO or IATA code, or city name can be entered in a search box, if you are in doubt about any of these. Information includes radio frequencies, runway lengths, airport altitude above mean sea level, magnetic variation, coordinates, and more. TAF’s, (Terminal Area Forecasts), and METAR’s (a French acronym meaning, Aviation Routine Weather Report) may be looked up for a range of different times in the past day +. From these reports, once you learn to decode the jargon, you can set the FS Weather menu to duplicate as closely as possible, real weather conditions for your flight times.

When you have completed your flight, you post a report by filling out the online "Report-A-Flight" form under Pilot Operations.  This is linked from the main Heathrow  web page.  Your report will be copied automatically to the Hub Captain, AHC Personnel, and AHC Scheduling.  If you prefer to file the report manually the following is an example of the layout for your email:

Flight Report for pilot# xxxx

Flight Dep. Dest Dept Arrive Flight Time Aircraft

NAU219 EGLL  EGJB    08:45    09:35    0:50   Fokker 50

NAU222 EGJB  EGLL    10:50    11:55    0:55   Fokker 50

Total time this report: 01hr 45 minutes

Total time to date: 43hr 25 minutes

Notes (optional):

XII.    Recording Flight Times

Timings on the reports should be taken (as in real life) from start of taxi to engine shut down - not from take off to landing--in other words, gate to gate. You are requested to use GMT times because the clock in FS has been found to be very unreliable. It jumps time zones - and will occasionally go completely crazy. This makes it hard to record correct flight times for long flights (or even on a London to Paris flight). --Remember: Do not trust the FS clock! It will skip hours in keeping with some diabolical scheme known only unto itself (and perhaps Bill Gates). It behaves more erratically westbound than east, and is positively crackers in the polar regions where time zones are all scrunched together. Always keep a separate clock running on Zulu time, and periodically check and reset the FS system clock to keep local daylight conditions what they should be.

To set your assigned take-off time, pull down the World... Set Time and Season Menu at the beginning of each flight. You will see options in the menu to set either local time or GMT and note that as you alter one value the other will adjust automatically. Set your assignment time in the GMT box, and the same time on the separate clock you are running. Exit out of the menu and complete your assignment. When you arrive at the destination airport and park on the ramp go back to the menu and record the GMT time that is shown there, assuming it is in agreement with your check clock. The GMT time may be grayed out but it will still show the correct time value in relation to local (FS clock) time.

If you use a planner which prints out for your flights, it is adviseable to write down the ATA (actual time of arrival) that you cross each navaid - this is a way of ensuring that you do not lose track of your flight time if the clock in FS really does go haywire on you. Remember, you will only be credited with the real hours flown, and not the simulated time that is shown on the clock. Jumping a time zone does not add an hour to your loggable flight time.

If you use accelerated time this must be mentioned in your flight report together with the ACTUAL time an assignment has taken. Pilots will only be credited with the real time hours flown - not the FS clock time.

Note - Flights around the world MUST be flown in real-time to qualify for the G suffix to be awarded.

As your flying hours increase, you will gain extra stripes and increase in rank. The following ranks are those attainable at Noble Air.

When you file your reports, if you have earned a promotion to the next rank, it will be announced on the Hours page, and you will be offered a certificate to indicate your achievement.  Certificates are sent in .gif file format and are approximately 35k in size.

XIV.    Noble Pilot Policy

Noble Air has a policy of a maximum of 50 pilots operating in any one hub. If your preferred hub is closed to new recruits you will be offered the chance to fly with another hub. New hubs will be created as necessary to allow for growth in pilot numbers.

Noble Air has guidelines on the length of time a pilot may remain inactive without contacting the Hub Captain with either a report or an "I’m still around" message. The guidelines suggests that pilots who have been out of contact for 60 days may be placed on the inactive list, and those who have been out of touch for a further 30 days may be removed from the hub altogether.

Please note that the continuing demand for places from new recruits means that I intend to operate a policy based on the above guidelines, not through any wish to be draconian but only in an attempt to ensure that would-be pilots are not excluded in favour of pilots who have disappeared and do not keep in touch. Therefore, the "pilot inactivity" policy will be as follows:

1. Pilots from whom no report or message has been received for more than 60 days will be listed as inactive (effectively being removed from the Hub Newsletter and Crew Page on the Web site) and will be e-mailed and notified of their inactive status. They will still receive general e-mail messages that are sent to all pilots (mainly the crew address list which is circulated from time to time). Pilots need only contact the HC to be re-activated.

2. Pilots from whom no contact has been received for a further 30 days will receive an e-mail asking them of their intentions, and requesting a response by a certain date (date at the HC’s discretion). Failure to respond by that date will result in the pilot being removed from the Crew Roster,  totally. At this point the pilot will no longer be a member of Noble Air. He/she can apply to re-join as per the application process outlined in this manual, but note that if the Hub is full, the pilot would need to seek an alternative hub with vacancies. The previous hours logged by the pilot would still stand.

3. For pilots removed from the crew list under Condition 2 above, the HC will maintain a record only of the pilot’s last total hours and rank (for reference purposes and in case the pilot wishes to re-apply). E-mail addresses will be removed from circulation lists and no further contact will be made with the pilot unless an application to re-join is made.

4. In addition to the above, new pilots who do not file any flight reports in the first 30 days after receiving their pilot number will be dropped from the roster.

In practice, you will never become subject to the above procedure providing you send a regular email message every couple of months letting me know you’re still around and wish to fly in future.

XV.    Communications

Pilots communicating by e-mail should place their LHR Pilot number as part of the subject line of the message.

ICQ by Mirabilis is a free program which allows internet users to chat, one on one, or in groups, exchange messages, transfer files and URLs.  Many Noble pilots are on the ICQ net and can see in a special window when other users they have put on their contact lists are on-line.   It has proven a great tool for closing the distance between our pilots on several different continents.  There is an ICQ page at the hub where you can post your number so other pilots can put you on their contact lists.

Pilots are encouraged to share   problems and solutions by reporting them to the AHC/Operations for inclusion in   NOTAMS and PIREPS.

A good source of information to work through problems are the various bulletin boards and forums at places like  Flightsim.com, Avsim, and E-Flight. Your fellow pilots and the management staff at the LHR hub will be happy to share their expertise or direct you to another resource where you can receive help with whatever problem is plaguing you. If you’ve never had such problems--then you probably haven’t been flying FS very long! The Pilot’s Lounge at the Main Noble page is also a clearing house for Q and A on the sim.

Unfortunately, with the rapid expansion of scenery, there is now some duplication of scenery areas, airports and navaids. Scenery conflicts are being reported by my pilots which cause computer lockups or "Database Error" flags in FS5 - this is usually caused by navaid duplication. If you start collecting scenery then beware of running EURNAV.BGL with any other European scenery files. EURNAV contains all European navaids and you will find these duplicated in most individual country scenery BGLs. It is important not to have any duplicated navaids active at the same time.  With FS5.1 one solution is to either get a file called AREAKILL.ZIP which neatly identifies such conflicts and attempts to remove duplications from the BGL. Alternatively, you should use the Scenery Manager and de-activate all scenery files except for those required during a flight. With FS5.0 the solution is to use a scenery manager such as BGLMGR to exclude unwanted BGL files for the current assignment. This may sound time consuming, but I recommend you use one of these methods - a lockup at the end of a three or four hour flight is no joke. It is advised that you save the situation at regular intervals - At least then if there is a database error and a lockup you don't have to fly the entire flight again.

There are two common bugs that are often asked about.  One of which can be easily avoided and is common to all versions of FS.  Pilots often complain of the ILS being at the wrong end of the runway.  This is caused when the ILS at each end is on the same frequency, as is the case with Heathrow.  As an example, both runways 09L/27R have an ILS frequency of 110.3 MHz.  To ensure you are tuned to the correct ILS, enter the Navigation menu, which can be found as a sub-menu from the NAV/COM menu option in FS5.x and from the Aircraft menu in FS95. Here you will find an option to change which localiser you are tuned to. The default option is for "Auto Select" which never seems to work very well. You need to manually select the correct localiser. When approaching runway 09, select localiser 1 and when approaching runway 27, select localiser 2. As a general rule, the lower runway number is always localiser 1 and the higher runway is always localiser 2. This is true for ALL airports around the world that have the same frequency ILS at each end of the runway.

The second bug is one of jet engines simply stopping. This is a fault on aircraft that have auxiliary fuel tanks installed. If the fuel in the aux. tanks runs out, the engines will stop. It is simply a matter of re-starting them again and all is well. This one has caught out many pilots so please do be aware of it.

FSFW 95, or FS6 is even more unstable, but in different ways. It is very good practice to back up the World.vis file of the FS6 Scenery directory before new scenery is added. Then, if the worst happens and you suffer a lock-up, the old copy can be restored before restarting FS.

FS98 is a much more stable simulation, and forgiving of duplicated navaids and scenery. But there are still a number of problems, many having to do with video card and 3-D accelerator compatibility.  Read the FS readme.txt file and the forums for work-arounds and solutions.

XVII.    Still interested ?

If you are interested in flying with Noble UK Heathrow, here's what to do:

A.  Read the Noble Air Operations Manual and this, Noble Air - London Heathrow Operations Manual, in their entirety.

B. Send an e-mail direct to the HC, subject "Join Noble Air LHR".   Please provide the following information:

1. First Name,  

6. Date Of Birth,  

7. Main Sim Used,  

8. How would you class your current Piloting skills? 

9.  Tell us a bit about yourself.

C. You will be asked to contact the HC Scheduling and advise him what type of routes you wish to fly. The chart below lists the type of available routes.  He will advise you of your first route.  Once you have completed that route, and filed your first report, then you will be issued with a unique training Pilot ID number and will then be officially on the roster of Noble Air Heathrow.

Domestic Flights            Up to 2 hours

Short Haul Flights                 1-3 hours

Medium Haul Flights             3-6 hours

Long Haul Flights                   6+ hours

All combinations of these categories.

A route is effectively two sectors - one flight out and one return flight.  Keep in mind, the above flight category times are for the outward flight, or sector, only.  Therefore a typical medium haul sector would take between 6 and 12 hours to complete, including the return flight (but not including layovers on the beach or around the crew hotel's cabana bar!). Make sure you take this into account when asking for flight assignments!!!  Please do be realistic in working out how many flights you can undertake on a regular basis. I hate to chase up pilots for reports they have nor posted only to find out they have not got the time to fly. Start off small and ask for an increase in flights if you find you have the time to fly them.
 

XVIII.    Summary

Read NBLOPS.ZIP first and then the Ops Manual of any hub in which you are interested.

Watch your hours and your experience grow.

AND HAVE FUN!   THAT'S WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT!

Do not hesitate to ask any questions.  All Noble hubs are very friendly and all pilots would respond to any questions you may wish to ask about the airline. There is a wealth of experience to draw upon, both in FS, and computer knowledge. We have real world pilots on our roster, as well as real world airline personnel.