dates used for pireps?

[jameskcox]

hello,

i flew one flight tuesday, entered the pirep with that date (obvious). I saved the flight at the gate, exit open, engines shut down.
I returned the next (real-world) evening, loaded that flight, and continued form where it left off. In otherwords, I pretended that it was the same day, same plane, same gate, just an hour later after pax disembark and new pax embark. then i flew to a diff city.

My question, thn, is should my second (and subsequnet) dates in the pireps be the same as the first pirep because the flight is a continuation of the first day's events, even thoguh it may be a few real-world days later, or should the pirep date be the day in the real-world that we actually sat down and flew it?

[Martin the Warrior]

You should probably make the date the day you flew the flight. The only exception would be if you were flying two Wednesday-only routes, for example, and you started on a Wednesday, you could go ahead and file the second one for the same day.

It's not required, though, you can fly a Wednesday-only route on a Friday in real life if you like; just set the simulator date to a Wednesday of your choice.

[Aaron Robinson]

You should use whatever system suits you best. I recommend filing based on the simulator date to avoid the problem you recommended. Another similar issue is if you flew on 28 May:
1) a flight departing departing on the 28th from North America to Europe arriving on the 29th
2) a flight within Europe the morning of the 29th
and then filed both as 28 May, flight 2 would appear first in the logbook because the departure time was first.

[jameskcox]

okay. thanks for the quick reply, guys. and thnx for the great sim airline opportunity.