Keeping boredom at bay during Cruise?
04-06-2018, 01:05 PM
#12
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Just like the distinguished gentlemen above, I scan diligently for traffic, continuously review each system page, and read my company training materials unflinchingly on even the longest transcons. Every single other pilot I've flown with has done that as well. The cockpit conversation gets boring, but a "what's your least favorite chapter of the fom" discussion always gets the juices flowing! Not sure why anyone else would talk about doing anything else on the INTERNET.
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04-06-2018, 02:08 PM
#13
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Originally Posted by TexBubba
So on those 2 to 5 hour plus flights especially, across the good ole USA during cruise flight, how do you keep boredom at bay?
Study? Nap? Music? Talk? Read? Stare out the window? Eat? Ipad shows? Bathroom breaks? I think it’s good to mix it up.
Study? Nap? Music? Talk? Read? Stare out the window? Eat? Ipad shows? Bathroom breaks? I think it’s good to mix it up.
So you monitor systems.
It’s called work.
And if that gets tedious you plan ahead, double check, verify arrivals, airports, runways, what-if scenarios.
It’s pilot stuff.
04-06-2018, 02:15 PM
#14
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Originally Posted by TiredSoul
In cruise you’re a systems monitor.
So you monitor systems.
It’s called work.
And if that gets tedious you plan ahead, double check, verify arrivals, airports, runways, what-if scenarios.
It’s pilot stuff.
So you monitor systems.
It’s called work.
And if that gets tedious you plan ahead, double check, verify arrivals, airports, runways, what-if scenarios.
It’s pilot stuff.
I like to bring a good book for the quiet times and also have a sort of mental list of conversation starters with the other crewmember.
04-06-2018, 02:34 PM
#15
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Originally Posted by Flightcap
All the above very necessary and important. But to be fair to the OP, I have yet to see someone's attention fully occupied by the above tasks on a 1.5 hour flight let alone anything over 2 hours. There are bound to be lulls in activity. If you are that pilot I haven't yet met who keeps himself actively busy with work every moment of every minute of a 3 hour flight, more power to you.
I like to bring a good book for the quiet times and also have a sort of mental list of conversation starters with the other crewmember.
I like to bring a good book for the quiet times and also have a sort of mental list of conversation starters with the other crewmember.
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04-06-2018, 04:27 PM
#17
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Originally Posted by galaxy flyer
Maybe old school, but a transcon ain’t that long, I fly the plane. OTOH, I do the same on a 12-hour keg, too. It’s called work.
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04-06-2018, 05:32 PM
#19
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Originally Posted by TexBubba
So on those 2 to 5 hour plus flights especially, across the good ole USA during cruise flight, how do you keep boredom at bay?
Study? Nap? Music? Talk? Read? Stare out the window? Eat? Ipad shows? Bathroom breaks? I think it’s good to mix it up.
Study? Nap? Music? Talk? Read? Stare out the window? Eat? Ipad shows? Bathroom breaks? I think it’s good to mix it up.
Grow up.
I expect younger kids to whine about "are we there yet," and being unable to find anything to do, and about being bored.
Not adults.
04-06-2018, 06:12 PM
#20
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Originally Posted by JohnBurke
What do you do for a few hours? Your job.
Grow up.
I expect younger kids to whine about "are we there yet," and being unable to find anything to do, and about being bored.
Not adults.
Grow up.
I expect younger kids to whine about "are we there yet," and being unable to find anything to do, and about being bored.
Not adults.
In cruise you’re a systems monitor.
So you monitor systems.
It’s called work.
And if that gets tedious you plan ahead, double check, verify arrivals, airports, runways, what-if scenarios.
It’s pilot stuff.
So you monitor systems.
It’s called work.
And if that gets tedious you plan ahead, double check, verify arrivals, airports, runways, what-if scenarios.
It’s pilot stuff.
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