Flying for a Fractional Operator the old joke about the Navy "join the Navy and see the world thru a porthole" applied to us as we rarely had more than 12 hours free of duty. If we did we were put on hotel standby with a 30 minute call out. So limited chances to go out and see much unless it was very close to the hotel. We also did a fair amount of FBO standby. The way I dealt with it was a gaming laptop. I could always grab some game time while chatting with other nerds, ahem, I mean players in my group over voice comm. I also kept an e-reader with me and got a lot of books read.