What's Your Shortest Flight?

[Nels_Anderson]

That is pretty close! Though looking at the satellite images I cannot figure out where the runway for Middle Zoy is. Westonzoyland has theirs clearly marked.

[retnavycpo]

My favorite short flight is from Andersen AFB (PGUA) on Guam, to Guam International Airport (PGUM), about 15-20 miles or so.  I take off from PGUA, fly to PGUM, do touch & goes, then back to PGUA.

 

 

 

 

 

[PhrogPhlyer]

Like being on Okinawa or Oahu, island flying is clockwise around one day, counterclockwise around the next!

[avallillo]

Well, my shortest flight, and possibly a world record for the shortest flight in a transport category aircraft, has already been documented here in the article "Short Haul", which used to be in the features section, but I have no idea where it is now.  Like all of my other articles here, it has no doubt been shorn of its pictures and auto-edited into a condition that would have have me black and blue from the ire of the good nuns who had charge of my primary education back in the day!

 

For those of you who have not seen it, it was a real life 727 ferry flight from LGA to JFK one evening around 1979.  The winds were such as to favor a takeoff on 22 at LGA, from whence it was a mere whifferdil over to runway 13L at JFK.  The whole flight from liftoff to touchdown took a shade under 4 minutes.  Even a flight shorter in distance, like El Paso to Biggs AAF would take longer than that due to the configuration of the runways.   Try it in MSFS or XPlane and see if you can beat that time!

[Nels_Anderson]

I remember that article well Tony!

 

Thanks to the Wayback Machine you can still read it, though the pictures are missing:

 

http://web.archive.org/web/20111102213850/http://www.flightsim.com/main/feature/shrthaul.htm

[davidc2]

17 hours ago, avallillo said:

Well, my shortest flight, and possibly a world record for the shortest flight in a transport category aircraft, has already been documented here in the article "Short Haul", which used to be in the features section, but I have no idea where it is now.  Like all of my other articles here, it has no doubt been shorn of its pictures and auto-edited into a condition that would have have me black and blue from the ire of the good nuns who had charge of my primary education back in the day!

 

For those of you who have not seen it, it was a real life 727 ferry flight from LGA to JFK one evening around 1979.  The winds were such as to favor a takeoff on 22 at LGA, from whence it was a mere whifferdil over to runway 13L at JFK.  The whole flight from liftoff to touchdown took a shade under 4 minutes.  Even a flight shorter in distance, like El Paso to Biggs AAF would take longer than that due to the configuration of the runways.   Try it in MSFS or XPlane and see if you can beat that time!

 

Done! Got it done in 3:32

 

That was fun as well!!