What is the typical speed of a passanger jet when it is at cruising altitude?

Mainly concerned with U.S coast to coast overland flight. Read more »

How long does it take a commercial jet to reach a cruising altitude of 40,000 feet?

And at what altitude do the seatbelt signs goes off at? Read more »

When in the cruising altitude in an airliner how many miles of land can you see? How far is the horizon?

Let’s assume 30,000 feet Read more »

What’s the shortest commercial flight in which an airliner gets to reach full cruising altitude?

How many kilometers? Dulles to JFK? Baltimore to Boston? Does the slope of that flight look like a triangle, with a constant rate of climb, or a parabola, with the rate of climb slowly tapering off? Read more »

How do I get the plane to cruising altitude in fs 2004 with out stalling it?

I try flight simulator 2004 and I take off in a fed ex a 380 and I try to pull up to 30000 feet but I always stall. How do I fix this problem and which way do I put the flaps up or down as in all the way up and all the way [...] Read more »

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