Community weekly poll: What keeps you occupied during long airplane trips?
- 6/6/06 11:15 AM
Anything but sleep
by ehalpe - 6/6/06 10:55 PM In reply to: What keeps you occupied during long airplane trips? by Marc Bennett
I mostly read to keep me distracted. I'm the sort of person that simply can NOT sleep on any form of transportation. This can sometimes be extremely frustrating as when I went from Melbourne to London via about half a dozen other stops on a cheap flight. 36 or so hours later and feeling like death I finally arrived and slept for 15 hours straight without even changing position.
What keeps you occupied during long airplane trips?
by shoe552 - 6/6/06 11:21 PM In reply to: What keeps you occupied during long airplane trips? by Marc Bennett
Laptop screens have gotten so unwieldy, they're almost impossible to use once the guy in front of you pushes his seat back into the mandatory full-horizontal position. Most of the concerns voiced earlier, however, are prevalent even without planes offering internet access. Shoot-em-up games, the possibility of the guy in the aisle seat looking at porn, etc. So far, common sense and decency have mostly prevailed. But in the future?
I fly a lot in my job and I find that the most productive things I can do are read and sleep. I apologize to all the people I've offended by not talking to them. (Although when someone tries to start a conversation, I can usually nip it in the bud by responding that my occupation is ''IRS agent.'' It isn't, but it's a very effective answer.)
The PSP was MADE for this.
by umft7d - 6/6/06 11:23 PM In reply to: What keeps you occupied during long airplane trips? by Marc Bennett
I always take my PSP on the plane with me. It's nice to have the choice of watching a movie, playing a game, or (if someone's kids are being noisy) just turning up the volume and listening to music on my headphones.
Come to think of it, it would be even better if they get wireless access up there too.
DS works too
by hhanley007 - 6/7/06 11:15 AM In reply to: The PSP was MADE for this. by umft7dI take my DS, it may not be as media friendly, but it gets the job done. and if they get wifi or wimax, i could go for the free VoIP and chat with a friend or three
Another PSP vote
by genlocked - 6/7/06 11:18 AM In reply to: The PSP was MADE for this. by umft7dYes, my PSP keeps me sane when I fly. And after I finish watching a movie and want to rest, I hand it over to my son to play Star Wars Battlefront II. I have an Ipod Video also but the PSP screen is larger and sharper. Plus, my son is hearing impaired and the open caption option is readable (and priceless) on the PSP.
password new
by wally1 - 6/7/06 3:50 PM In reply to: The PSP was MADE for this. by umft7dnew activated
Audio Books from Audible.com
by jimshy - 6/6/06 11:56 PM In reply to: What keeps you occupied during long airplane trips? by Marc Bennett
A Creative MoVu (one AAA battery) and Bose QuiteComfort headphones (another AAA battery) - a six pack of AAA gets me to Japan and back with juice to spare.
How to occupy yourself on a long plane trip!!
by ripkenfan2632 - 6/7/06 1:53 AM In reply to: What keeps you occupied during long airplane trips? by Marc Bennett
I like listening to Audio books.
I am an Attorney and Realtor on Maui so I am always reading and my eyes get so sore; so I really enjoy having the books read to me whenever possible: in the car or on a flight; whether fiction or non-fiction.
www.audio-to-go.com is a great website for complete audio books on CD or tape and they send them to you via express mail.
Works great! Try it! Enjoy!!!
Disgusting flights....
by 9mmammo - 6/7/06 3:09 AM In reply to: What keeps you occupied during long airplane trips? by Marc Bennett
Just think about it, they rush people off the plane, then rush people in. Who was in that seat before me, someone coughing up the latest virus with a chunk of his lung from smoking?,or was it the mom, with her little tot, yacking and pooping---and you ALL have gotten this one--crying all the way. I'm not afraid to fly, I hate it. The 3 or 4 hour trip, I lay off the coffee,get up a little earlier so that when I get into that flying sub, I fall asleep. Now, if I'm flying to Cairo, I wait for the first feeding, pop a sleeping pill(don't forget your earplugs)and pass out. I wake, in time for the morning feeding, wash up, ready for the day. This works rather well for me, the "jet lag" is reduced to a minimum. I've been doing this for years now, and it makes my trip feel like minutes.
Sudoku
by ShouneN - 6/7/06 3:32 AM In reply to: What keeps you occupied during long airplane trips? by Marc Bennett
Sudoku baby.... if u havent heard of this game... check it out... it really keeps u occupied at all times...
God, please no connectivity!
by cbmtrx - 6/7/06 4:02 AM In reply to: What keeps you occupied during long airplane trips? by Marc Bennett
Isn't it bad enough with blabbermouths yakking on their cellphones three inches from your head? You sure you want Internet connectivity during a flight?
No thank you!
You left out eating and drinking!
by StephenPReid - 6/7/06 4:38 AM In reply to: What keeps you occupied during long airplane trips? by Marc Bennett
Although I also watch the movie (if it's any good), the thing that most keeps me from doing all the "useful" things that I'd planned, is the food and drink that keeps coming and occupying my tray.
Jeez, is there no escape from technology?
by porthome - 6/7/06 6:06 AM In reply to: What keeps you occupied during long airplane trips? by Marc Bennett
Although now retired, I spent a 37-year career in a series of high-stress jobs that involved lots of travel - sometimes just around the city, sometimes around the world. I quickly learned to value my travel time as a time to relax, decompress, organize my thoughts, or whatever. Good music on the car radio or earphones in a plane, browse a magazine, look out the window, think. I had an early laptop but never used it to do the work I should have done before leaving. I had a cellphone, always turned off until I was ready to make calls and answer messages. I also used to start work at 6 or 7 am with the phone turned off, and could get about 6 hours work done in 2 when there were no interruptions. I think I realized early that being available 7/24 (or even worse, WANTING to be available 7/24) is a dangerous pathology.
So I just shake my head when I see people walking along (don't get me started about idiot drivers!) in a fog with a Blackberry in their hand and a bluetooth stuck on their ear, chatting with G** knows whom. Even worse, overhearing conversations like ''hey I'm on Yonge Street and it just started to rain and I'm thinking of going to the HotJam concert tomorrow'' makes you think people left their brains behind when they graduated from kindergarten.
Getting too old, I guess. </rant>
Perry B
What Keeps You (me) Occupied During Long Airplane Trips?
by doompenguin - 6/7/06 6:26 AM In reply to: What keeps you occupied during long airplane trips? by Marc Bennett
Sleeping. I've been known to not only miss meals (no big loss for the most part there); but to sometimes miss take-offs; and sometimes have to be woken up to "prepare" for landing.
What do I do during long airline flights.
by bnorby - 6/7/06 6:32 AM In reply to: What keeps you occupied during long airplane trips? by Marc Bennett
I drive my car instead.
I am fully confident that I will never again board an airplane. Fly my own? Maybe. but never will I board a commercial airline. It is just too much hastle.
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