BrianG wrote on Jul 27^th, 2011 at 1:03am:

I'm the same way. Flip from window to window. I think Lou has the right idea. He starts long flights right around bed time, get the plane airborne on AP. Then he goes to bed, wakes up the next morning, eats breakfast and starts the decent.  Makes sense to me.

boeing247 wrote: Do you guys not use ATC (I at least know what Mark thinks about that feature!)? I have to be constantly watching the screen in case ATC wants me to tune another frequency or something. If you don't acknowledge, they terminate you route. Tough crowd.

But don't make sense to me. Since I read a LOU post in another topic, I have the same doubt. How do you guys deal with ATC messages if you are flying (and sleeping !!!) during a IFR long haul flight? I think the better way when you are tired is to save the game, go to the bed to sleep, and restart it when you can. I usually do it without any kind of problem. But before restarting a B-767/757 saved flight [FLY NOW!]  and don't lose some flight data,e.g. payload, I go to [FREE FLIGHT > CURRENT AIRCRAFT > 1 CHANGE...] , and I change the flight number. It works fine for me. No flight data will be lost.