Classic British Flight Sim

757's have been ETOPS certified for years. I'm not a fan of any long range flights in a Twin to be honest.

FlyGlobespan flew to New York from Liverpool with a 757 and even a 737-800!

What surprised me more than any of that (lets face it, the ETOPS twins fly WELL north and well within range of Iceland and Greenland if something happens) is that Continental Airlines ETOPS certified a bunch of its 737-800s (and even some of its 737-500s) and uses them on Carribean Routes out of Florida and TEXAS. It's not unknown for Continental to use a 737-800 to fly Houston to the US Virgin Islands non-stop. That's 100% overwater flight, and much of it is nearly 2 hours from land (they have a 180 min ETOPS certification on the 737-800s). It's a scary thought at first, but they've not had a single divert that was ETOPS-sensitive (i.e. nothing that caused that ETOPS 180 minute certification to come into play) since they started flying those operations almost 6 years ago. The funniest thing I found is that the only thing that differentiates their ETOPS 737s from non-ETOPS birds is that the ETOPS aircraft have the required additional liferaft and extended survival equipment installed. All of the 737s already have all of the other required equipment installed as standard. This means that they can "ETOPS" any aircraft they want during a B-check and use ETOPS-certified aircraft on domestic routes with no weight penalty as they simply remove the liferaft and survival equipment (it's only installed on ETOPs flights anyway to minimize the amount of ETOPS "kits" they have to have on hand at the various stations which originate these flights).