7 Hours at one sitting. Flew to Hawaii in a commercial jet from the west coast.

I did fly a B-17 from San Francisco to Honolulu which took almost 15 hours, but due to unexpected circumstances, I had to pause it midflight and didn't get to finish it to the next day

The longest flight that I am aware of is one that John Consterdine (FSTIPSTER) did on his RTW trip. It was 18 hours.

Go here and read about Leg 10 of his trip.
http://rtw2003.tripod.com/part_2.htm

In case you have not heard the terrible news, John has passed away. Please read the posts in the FS2002 and Cafe forums.

I think this record of 18 hours will stand unbroken.

What about fuel, Saratoga?  IMO, if you land and refuel, the flight doesn't count as 'continuous' and if you refuel in air, the flight is disqualified.  This is just my opinion, I think Hypnoticzero would have to judge on that one.

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Actually, it's already been done

John did indeed correct the 58s problem, and even notified M$ as well as posting the fix here, after confirming with Beechcraft by email that what he thought was right.
There are two ways to take the record, either the Rutan, its here, and try a non-stop RTW trip, or what I'm going to do next bank holiday weekend (a few weeks off), which is to re-enact Lindberghs crossing of the Atlantic, no pitstops for the loo. Just a few sandwiches and a thermos flask of coffee (if anyone has the exact details of what food he had let me know, but I won't be having a kitten with me!).

Ozzy

You guys are animals! I just completed KCLE to EGLL flying Lockheed constelation TWA "Star of America".It took nearly 19 hrs. I probably could have done it faster,but I was using real world weather(FS Metar) and winds were not favorable at any reasonable cruising altitude. I also went with engine failure on number 1&3 just to make it interesting.I did use auto pilot for trips to the can and the refrigerator,as my co-pilot slept through most of the flight (a.k.a son)as well as my stewardess(a.k.a. wife).Does my flight still count? I think it should,as most real pilots use the computer from push back to engine shut down. Consider the Constelation- It had a cockpit crew of four,I did the work of four all the way across the Atlantic myself-so I dont want to hear any crap about auto pilot being cheating.Even the most seasoned Captain has to bust a whiz once in awhile                                                                                   Ozzy, I wont swear to it,but I think "Lucky Lindy"had four egg salad sandwiches. Whatever he had,it had to beat the cattle feed you get on modern day airlines! He was ahead of his time in many ways!!                                                                                      Im verry sorry to hear of FSTipsters passing.He helped me ALOT. Ill miss him.