What do you do?

[Jim Moeller]

I *think* this is on topic, if not, feel free to slap my hand and have stand in the corner....

  What do you folks do when flying a longish trip (meaning anything over an hour) to occupy yourself during the flight?  Do you sightsee?  (not much help over large bodies of water)  Do you accelerate the aircraft so that it doesn't actually take the actual time?  Do you put it on 'autopilot' (if available).  Trim out the a/c and go take a nap?

  I tend to just stay with it, and do a bit of sightseeing (where applicable), but some of the trips are very long that I've done in the past.  (like circumnavigating the border of the U.S.).

What are your choices?

Jim

[jeff3163]

Hi Jim,
     For me, it is "All of the Above".  It depends on where I am flying or "for whom".  If it is a Virtual Airlines flight, they frown on the time acceleration thing.  But I am flying the "Air Hauler" cargo business simulator now and they encourage it.   

I always use the autopilot on long trips.  As for taking naps.  They are not planned, but I have fallen asleep at the controls many times.  Glad I'm not a REAL pilot!

[spirit_66]

.....What are your choices?....

Never fly such things.  Too boring. 

[corbu1]

Hi Jim,
I always fly realtime....

[HighGround]

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Ack-shully, Shamus, with this question, I realize there aren't too many trips in RTMM that have 1-hour legs;  most of them are in the 30- to 45-minute region, it seems to me.

But once I get to cruising altitude (a "flexible" MEA that varies with the visibility), I pretty-much always get "George" to fly the beast.

And in all cases, I'm inevitably rubbernecking around, with the help of TrackIR.

[spud]

Long flight legs and boredom are a simple fact of life as long as all is working according to Hoyle.  An old aviation adage "Flying is hours and hours of boredom interrupted by moments of Stark Terror!" 
 

[Doug]

I do the same thing I used to do on a real plane (before I retired). I read a good book and drink gin and tonic ...sometimes even open a pack of peanuts. :-). Often I've got the sim flying in a minimized window while I'm working on the RTMM web page.

D

[NeptuneP2V7]

YEP

for  a long flight i play BILLARD  http://gamezer.com/billiards/   

Neptune