I don't see how stating on a public forum that you think playing video games while you fly an aircraft is a bad idea means you have no sense of humor. I guess only boring stick in the muds don’t play games while they work and all the fun cool pilots do. This seems like an important topic that speaks volumes about how we want to define our profession.

Personally, I wouldn't do that because I see it as a slippery slope that can easily go from relieving boredom to causing me to lose situational awareness. That doesn't mean you have to sit there and focus all your energy on watching instruments because that is fatiguing too. I prefer less distracting ways to break up the boredom.

Just imagine how dumb we would all look if the media ran with this story. It would be very hard to try to fix this profession if the public assumes we all get paid to play with our iPads while we fly.