How to keep from getting bored on LHFs?
 

How do the rest of you in here flying cargo keep from getting bored? I normally play cards and drink lots of coffee:eek: along with the occasional hungry man dinner lol

two words
 

Plotting Charts! I let my artistic juices flow.:)
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PSP or Ipod

250 GB Western Digital Passport and Bittorrent = lots of movies on your laptop!

Sleep for 8 hours and the trip is only half as long!

You're a China Airlines 747 F/O and you're bored? How about playing "name the catering"? Last time I was at the morning buffet in Taipei, I was ohfer on everything with chinese writing in front of it. How about one point if you can tell if it's animal, vegetable or mineral and another in you can identify if it came from the ocean or land and 2 if you can name two of the vowels in it's name? Sounds fun, no?

Tell us more Obi Wan! Sounds like I need to get one of these!

I make the RFO's life a living hell! I want my coffee hot and strong, my dairy products cold and my meals properly cooked. If things don't go the way that I want, the RFO doesn't get a landing.

Oh, wait a minute...........

Google some of the following terms: "torrent", "bit torrent", "torrent lord", "bittorrent", "torrentlord"

Those are good but....
 

Three more I heard about.....one involves making a puppet out of your sock and entertaining yourself and the crew for hours.....

If you're more into adventure, there's a modified version of the "scavenger hunt" in which you go through the bags and pockets of your fellow crewmember....then...if you find anything interesting, you either keep the item or give it to someone else who would most likely use it in the presence of the original owner.

Lastly you can play the fascinating game exploring the social connections of self-identified "good guys" and their friends called : 6 degrees of disputed pairing.

"Tank Battle" on the FMS, anyone?
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I am able to sleep with my eyes open.

Might not be a good plan to **** off the crewmember who is preparing something you plan on ingesting :rolleyes: we all know what happens next...

You're absotutely right. The end of my standard briefing is...... "If we're not having fun, then we need to stop, talk and figure out why." When I flew for a now defunct people carrier I was warned about the effects of Visine on a cup of coffee. And I do love my coffee.

Passport is just a small portable inexpensive harddrive made by Western Digital. Bittorrent is a download process to allow you to d/l (and u/l) large files. I used a program called Azureus at first, but now I use Transmission on my Mac.

The way it works is you find the bittorrent file for the program, movie, MP3, etc that you want to d/l (I usually start at Piratebay and Google). You download that small file that Azureus uses to then start downloading the file you want. Many movies files are in the 700MB range, which means that they were compressed to fit on a single CD. It does not affect how it is viewed on my laptop! I store them on my Passport as opposed to on my Mac harddrive, but easily drag and drop them onto my Mac for easy viewing using Front Row on my Mac. The 700MB on a CD also works great for viewing on the DVD/CD player on the back of the front seat headrest of the truck for my 4 yr old daughter to watch her favorite Disney movies while traveling!;)

You can google about bittorrent to learn more about the process.

Handbrake for MAC works great as well. Drop in a DVD in the computer, burns it into a MPEG 800mb-900mb in 30-45 minutes.

Usually have 20 or so movies a time saved onto hard drive. Makes the commute easier.
$1 rentals from redbox help to keep a constant new stream of movies.


http://handbrake.fr/

Sean, what did you like about Transmission over azureus for the mac?

Smaller, easier program! It took a while for me to figure Azureus out, and I like, but for the occasional download, I just use Transmission.

Uh, yea, if you already HAVE the DVD! ;) Hmmm, is Charlie Wilson's War out on DVD yet? ;)

Somebody mentioned PSP before, Ive found that it is a great platform for LH entertainment, as you can store music, games, and movies all in a compact package. The Sim cards (you buy em separately 1G-4G) don't take up any space, and the game UMD's are not much larger than a Ritz cracker. Decent battery life too. Bigger screen than an iPod, yet not too big a unit overall.

Sometimes pulling the laptop out is a pain, esp if you are stuck in coach. Hard to watch anything if the guy in front of you has moved his seat all the way back and your screen is pushed forward as a result. No such problem with the PSP, as you can usually just place it in a pocket of your flight jacket.

You just have to get past the "kid thing" aspect of it... As most adults do not usually carry one around, but afer showing the utility of mine vs. my iPod, many coworkers have picked one up too.

Alright, I want to know what tank battle is.

I just want to know how to connect the video on my laptop to the Nav Display,then I could plumb the audio into the intercom.... hmm, where's my wire strippers... Hey Ya'll watch this!

I agree PSP is the sh*t. nothin like entertaining the captain as i play Grand Theft Auto. A game that involves stealing cars, killing anyone you want for whatever reason and anyway you want, and becoming a hired hitman. You regain health by picking up a hooker umm doing your thing and watch your health increase but your money go down. Best part is after you finish you can run her over, beat her with a baseball bat, or just shoot her and get all your money back plus extra she had on her. Man what an awesome game.

Challenge accepted. If it's the game I'm thinking though, we must first delineate on what scale constitutes a direct hit, i.e. shoot from 160 or 320 and check the accuracy at 5 or 10. :D

Game? I thought you were talking about your life in Memphis.;)

Been there done that lol!:eek:

To pass the time...

I usually wait until the senior guy is in the bunk then try to close it with him in it.

Let's see what else...make waypoints in the FMS that show up while I'm in the back on break.

Waypoints like: Let the F/O have the chicken.
Next time you take the first break
Light a match, next time you use the lav


Other activities we play are: Don you lifevest inside the plane and try to jump rope, moon other aircraft when they fly by, and finally "let's see if the landing gear really work at 40,000 feet".


Never a dull moment,

FF

What are you doing at 40K ? :eek::eek: It makes my head hurt just thinking of flying that high!! :D

If you've done more than one crossing in the Mighty Dog you know how to make the magenta lines disappear on the nav displays, just in time for the captain to come up from the bunk.

(TCAS mode, then run the range out to 160....)

Nice to see you back here Huck. Stay around...

VFR on top, or is that 40,500 ?

:D

FF