I might add that from my experience, every time declaration coming from any player's memory (including my own) has to be taken with more than just a grain of salt, just like speed declarations. Things usually happen in much shorter time in AH than we seem to remember.
Rarely anything lasts 15 minutes in AH. A pursuit at top speed on the deck for 15 minutes would cover almost 4 sectors. Fights that appeared to have lasted 10 minutes in my memory had been just three minutes long when I checked them in the film viewer.