What do you do on an airplane during a flight?

[thalberg]

I always get so bored.  I'm looking for ideas. 

[0range]

It depends if I need to be awake and cogent on landing.

If not, I like to take a few Dramamine with a beer or two and conk out.

[gerry]

Fly Jet Blue and watch TV. Seriously, I ALWAYS travel with those spongy earplugs - your first defense against crying babies and noisy cabin mates. Once you have those, you are free to: 1) read a good book (or that catalogue of ridiculously expensive toys); 2) bring a book of mindgames (crossword puzzles, etc.) 3) pre-record a bunch of pieces you are interested in working on or understanding (Beethoven Sonatas for instance) and do an in-depth listening/analysis; or, 4) actually strike up a conversation with your seatmate!!

Once while I was on a tour through Europe (mid-60's) and spending lots of time on buses and trains, I bought lots of those miniature orchestral and chamber scores (do they still print them?) and read through them - this was well before ipods and the like and it was an opportunity to actually hear them in my mind while studying the nuts and bolts.

Of course, if you're really bored you could casually mention that you had a bomb...

[rc]

Chatting with the neighbour can be interesting, or a deadend.  LAst time I flew they had a TV with more channels than I had at home and I wound up watching a program on some investor.

Otherwise I usually have some music to listen to or a book.  I've never been able to sleep on a flight.

[thalbergmad]

My next flight will be 64 seconds. Not sure what i will do.

My last flight was almost 20 minutes.

Thal

[zheer]

    Do nothing, usually just talk with the people am travelling with, it really is a once a year thing for me, so never board really.

[communist]

do things to annoy aother people like bring random objects to throw at people. its also fun to stare at people and don't stop even if they look back at you and look apathetic

[gerryjay]

My next flight will be 64 seconds. Not sure what i will do.

hey thal!

64 seconds? where are you flying to? your neighbour´s house?

anyway, i suggest you spend this valuable span of time studying silently any tricky passage of two notes that you want to.

hope that helps!

[gerry]

My next flight will be 64 seconds. Not sure what i will do.

My last flight was almost 20 minutes.

Thal

cheap drugs perhaps

[gszo0]

Well, during a flight I usually control an airplane... or try to...  pilot

[shortyshort]

Well, during a flight I usually control an airplane... or try to...  pilot

So, no alcohol or drugs for you then.   

[quantum]

Well, during a flight I usually control an airplane... or try to...  pilot

I may have been a bit worried if your above statement didn't include "pilot" 

[gszo0]

I may have been a bit worried if your above statement didn't include "pilot" 

Hmmm... I don't need to have a gun to get into pilot's cabin 

[cmg]

I have to make some long (10 hour) flights about four times a year, so I've learned to chat it up with the flight crew for entertainment.

My favorite story:  On these long flights, attendants with the most seniority get to work them.  (They call them "dinosaur flights" because of the age of the attendants.)  Long flights offer more perks and longer layovers in neat places, I was told.  Well, I heard about a flight attendant named Barbara, who was in her early 70s, and she fell out of a Boeing 767 while it was on the tarmac.  She broke her hip.  Next year she comes back to work and -- after putting the drinks money in the galley microwave, thus starting a small fire -- she starts telling crew members how she fell out of the plane.  And, in demonstrating, she falls out again.  Another broken hip and forced retirement.

The flight crew swore this story was true. 

[gerry]

Hmmm... I don't need to have a gun to get into pilot's cabin 

Let's exercise caution with how we word things here - we still have big brother in the white house and who knows whos monitoring what on the internet.

[gszo0]

You are right. 

And now I don't think it's funny. Forgive me.

[pianowolfi]

As often as possible I get a window seat and look out, it's so fascinating . If I can't have a seat at the window I sleep, or watch people around me, or think, or listen to music. I mostly think. A lot. And I wish I will arrive soon.  I love so much the acceleration and the lift-off. This is a moment where I sometimes actually start to cry a bit since it's so intense. It's always a goodbye. I never think abstractly at this moment.

 Turbulences are tickling, I like .

 Rarely I have an interesting conversation.

The change of air pressure makes me a bit dizzy. A bit stoned. I like . Sometimes I get a headache from this.

 But i *hate* the pressure on my eardrums during the landing phase. I don't get why all the people around me look so happy and I suffer immensely from an intense pressure and pain in my ears, if the pressurization is not good. I always blow my nose but it's still painful. I just *hate* it. It scares me.

 I love to arrive and see my beloved, or friends .

[gyzzzmo]

I gave my girlfriend a very cool chinese gadget. Its a thing bit bigger than a credit card, you can listen to music and you can watch movies on it. Costs like 120 dollar/75 euro's on ebay. Sounds like something for you

If youre actually interested, i can reply the details

If youre looking for other funny things, you can squeeze butts of the flightladies or try taking over the airplane. Exciting for sure, but not my style.

gyzzzmo

[thalberg]

I have to make some long (10 hour) flights about four times a year, so I've learned to chat it up with the flight crew for entertainment.

My favorite story:  On these long flights, attendants with the most seniority get to work them.  (They call them "dinosaur flights" because of the age of the attendants.)  Long flights offer more perks and longer layovers in neat places, I was told.  Well, I heard about a flight attendant named Barbara, who was in her early 70s, and she fell out of a Boeing 767 while it was on the tarmac.  She broke her hip.  Next year she comes back to work and -- after putting the drinks money in the galley microwave, thus starting a small fire -- she starts telling crew members how she fell out of the plane.  And, in demonstrating, she falls out again.  Another broken hip and forced retirement.

The flight crew swore this story was true. 

Hahahahaha.....very sad but how can you help laughing.  Reminds me of my uncle's coworker who broke his nose playing racquet ball -- the racquet bounced off the wall and hit him in the nose.  When he healed, he came back and did the same thing again.

Also reminds me of a guy I read about in the news.  He was driving his friends around to show them how crime-ridden the area had become, and someone came running out of a warehouse shooting a gun and a bullet hit him in the head and killed him.