Community weekly poll: What keeps you occupied during long airplane trips?
- 6/6/06 11:15 AM
What is so special about listening to music
by fastphoto - 6/12/06 2:05 PM In reply to: Listening to music... by DwaineI use an MP3 player from Creative to lisen to audio books. If you are not up front, in the ''office'' (Flight Deck), nothing is more boring than flying unless there is a storm from to cross or fly through.
personal preference
by ackmondual - 6/12/06 8:02 PM In reply to: What is so special about listening to music by fastphotosome ppl prefer music, others audio books, and yet others, ...... blogs
Times are a changing...I say change and get paid.
by tonyman262 - 6/6/06 7:45 PM In reply to: What keeps you occupied during long airplane trips? by Marc Bennett
While I chose sleeping, sleeping is not what I would choose if I had a real choice.
I am a contract trainer. I teach people how to install, configure, and secure computer networking equipment (routers, switches, firewalls, IDS).
This year I expect to travel around 26 - 36 weeks.
So I fly a lot. I would love to be able to use my laptop to do research, class prep, pleasure reading, and play games. But unless you are in first class or have an aisle seat it is a hassell to crawl over people to get you stuff out of the overhead bins and crawl back to your seat. The airline I use don't have power outlets in the seats so you only get 2 hours max before you have to do the crawl thing again.
Now that I've flown with a particular carrier enough to be upgraded to first class many times, it's not as bad as coach but still no power only battery.
As far as the additional noise, well with the background roar of the engines and babies crying I've long ago purchased Bose noise cancelling headphones. By the way they are great.
Frankly, if the airlines get the go ahead for Internet and cell phone access during flights, I say the airlines should build in computers maybe into the trays that are on the backs of the seat in front of you while the headrests contains the monitors.
How hard would it be to have a server on board to supply hundreds of 2D games like Mario Bros. chess, backgammon, or word puzzles and so forth. Most airlines already have in-flight movies. Use the same headsets for the computers. Instead of charging $5 for the headsets to listen to the movies charge $7 and also give access to the computers as well. PCs to surf the Internet or play these games would not have to be so beefy.
While I do travel a lot and enjoy the places I go to.
With these kind of changes, the getting there could also be fun as well.
What airline?
by jimichan - 6/7/06 6:34 AM In reply to: Times are a changing...I say change and get paid. by tonyman262I fly to Japan a couple of times a year. It's an extremely long flight, almost 24 hours door-to-door on the way there, shorter on the way back (jet stream).
I always go Delta, and they seem to have what you describe. There are a variety of games and several movies to choose from. Thanks to frequent flyer miles, I have been going first class for the last few years, but I believe they have a similar system in coach.
My Music
by physedpsych - 6/6/06 7:50 PM In reply to: What keeps you occupied during long airplane trips? by Marc Bennett
It is so nice while on the plane mainly because it is one of the only places where there is no cells phones, No co worker and most of the time no one asking you questions so all I have to do is sit back and listen to my MP3 player to all the music I love with OUT interruption, Since I was the DJ ALL the music on my player is the best.
I was no DJ,
by one_predator - 6/7/06 12:58 AM In reply to: My Music by physedpsychbut I love listening to MY kind of music (mostly classical or contemporary) on one of my 3 hopefully soon to be MP3 players. Right now I have two different Sony Netmd players and an older Archos Jukebox Studio, but hopefully will be adding a 40 gig to my list. I prefer players that use the Windows Media Player as I can use them to serve double duty as data storage being a technician and not knowing what I may run into on any given trip. I always carry my laptop and extra external drives with backed up music, and my Smartphone with it's MP3 Player. Forget the ringtones, and games. The beauty is that even though limited songs, I can use the PDA function with the phone off. I can really get lost to the soundtracks of Crimson Tide, and The Time Machine. Not to mention several classical CD's of Musicals and and Soundtracks, and the great classics that I ripped to my MD players. 7 hours of peace and quiet. Thank God for noise cancelling headphones!
HOT Female Flight Attendants
by mdash1 - 6/6/06 7:55 PM In reply to: What keeps you occupied during long airplane trips? by Marc Bennett
My favorite activity on a plane is looking at the HOT female flight attendants and their gorgeous, shapely bodies as they walk by my row numerous times during the flight. Chatting them up while taking a stretch is fun, too. I consider myself especially lucky if there is a HOT girl sitting in the same row as I am. It sure makes the uncomfortable seats more bearable!
Reading
by sirothe - 6/6/06 7:56 PM In reply to: What keeps you occupied during long airplane trips? by Marc Bennett
I never run out of power. I can do it in a cramped space. I can pick up where I left off after I have had to get up to let fellow passenges in or out. I can bring exciting reading. I don't suffer atrocious airline sound or see bad movies in sub-VHS quality with views obscured by headrests and stewards. If my eyes get tired, I can plug in my MP3 player with my in-ear Shure headphones and block out most all of the sounds I don't want to hear..
Listening to music, but I wouldn't be caught dead with...
by schlice - 6/6/06 8:51 PM In reply to: What keeps you occupied during long airplane trips? by Marc Bennett
an iPlod.
Creative Zen Micro. I'd put it up against an iPod Mini any day of the week. Everything the iPod has plus FM radio, recorder, and replaceable battery.
Reading, music, sleeping and the occasional conversation
by cooki4casey - 6/6/06 9:14 PM In reply to: What keeps you occupied during long airplane trips? by Marc Bennett
I fly a lot, well I used to. And since ''used to'' refers to me being a kid, flying alone across country to visit family, I usually read books, listened to my CD Player (yuck... who has CDs anymore? ...lol) or slept. sometimes I might be seated next to a nice old lady that would talk to me.
What keeps you occupied during long airplane trips?
by Mycouch1 - 6/6/06 9:17 PM In reply to: What keeps you occupied during long airplane trips? by Marc Bennett
Drinking !!!
I'm with you!
by jimichan - 6/7/06 6:40 AM In reply to: What keeps you occupied during long airplane trips? by Mycouch1When they stopped serving free alcohol in coach on international flights a few years ago, I started bringing my own. Nobody complained. I finally started making the extra effort to accumulate frequent flyer miles and now fly only first class!
I really enjoy sipping a glass of champagne (out of a real glass) while coach customers file by.
working working working
by gumbawakka - 6/6/06 9:36 PM In reply to: What keeps you occupied during long airplane trips? by Marc Bennett
I work. I work on my Powerpoint presentations which I'll be giving --- I'm a keynote speaker. I'm personalizing the presentation to the upcoming client. I've downloaded all the files, pictures, info that I need prior to leaving. I have everything I need and a zippy IBM Thinkpad to work on with an extra battery in the DVD slot.
I put in the 3M privacy screen, a set of earbuds so I can pay attention to the audio effects, and I work work work. I try to ignore the stupid, useless, boring and intrusive sightseeing announcements from the pilot, the rotten service of inedible crap from the harried and hardworking flight attendants, the curiousity and garrulousness of my seatmates. I pay extra or work hard at getting an exit row so I have the room to work without the seat in front leaning back and destroying my screen.
Then, when done with that, I put in a training DVD to hone my Photoshop skills.
On the way home, I put in the DVD drive and throw in a current movie that I choose instead of the pap the airlines throw at me.
I count the ways that George W. Bush is the Worst President
by gumbawakka - 6/6/06 9:39 PM In reply to: working working working by gumbawakkaI keep a running tally of all the manifold ways that George W. is the worst president in US history. It is such a herculean task that I may never finish.
I have an Excel document in which I catalog the latest violation of the constitution done by his evil minions. It goes on and on. It takes up most of my time on vacation trips when I don't have to work.
Bush bashing....getting old and its adolescent
by RamJaw - 6/7/06 7:17 AM In reply to: I count the ways that George W. Bush is the Worst President by gumbawakkaIt's nice to see some people are so predictable...once again the sheep are following and swallowing whatever they are told by their so-called superiors or "the main stream media" LOL. I wonder if this person also kept an Excel spreadsheet of how many times Clinton LIED in the congressional hearings. Or what he did not do to deter terrorism (he let Bin Laden walk free),I doubt it.
If we as a group of (presumably) middle class citizens are to ever get our country on the right track again we have to stop thinking like this person and ignore wheither there is a (R) or a (D) after some candidates name. Face facts, they are ALL self-serving, say anything that sounds good to whom they are speaking the time, cheats. Both parties suckk. When hard liner sides like this post above are chosen, the only winners are the politicians. Not us.
P.S. You sound like an anti-mattter Limbaugh.
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