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8 and half hour cross-country flight. Things to do?

Try to toughen up before the flight. :p It's only 8 hours. I suppose if you get headaches from flying, or suffer from back pain, it's a bit tough. :eek: If you get woken up easily, bring some in-ear earphones.

Otherwise, you'll have a selection of movies to watch. Bring an iPod if you have one. Buy a 1 or 2 magazines as well, even if it's just a gadget magazine. You may not really care since we get tech news on the internet all the time, but it may keep you busy for long enough to be worth it.

I get no satisfaction from using a laptop on flights. They make the small volume of space that I have even smaller.


I have to fly around a total of 25-30 hours in 2 weeks, and I'm buying a UK car magazine (probably Car or Top Gear), and perhaps a copy of FHM/Esquire/New York Times or something. Doesn't matter, really.
 
Even though I find that the sleep I get in economy class is not such high quality its still better than being awake.

Other than that, ear plugs or noise cancelling headphones (you don't need to be listening to anything, I use them to stop the noise), water and moisturiser.
 
Thanks for your opinions, everybody. I have a LOT of trouble sleeping on planes, I always try but I usually end up only sleeping for about 30 minutes and maybe 1 hour if I'm lucky. On flights like this, I typically sleep a lot the day before. I always try though. However, if I can't sleep, all of your suggestions are going to be very useful. Thanks so much.

I feel so lucky that this is only a 1 stop flight. One year I had to do CanJet... oh, and the Calgary-Regina/Winnipeg(I forget)-Toronto-Halifax-St.Johns route really sucked.
 
brax.j said:
I always just do stuff on my laptop on long flights to solve the battery problem go to seatguru.com and lookup the seating on your plane and try to get a seat with a power plug you can get an adapter at the Apple Store. Also, sleeping is something a lot of people when flying.
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That is a cool website! Thx for posting the link. :)
 
Not to mention there are plenty of things young folk get up to in the plane toilets these days.
;)

Like going to the toilet
:rolleyes:
 
adamerr said:
Not to mention there are plenty of things young folk get up to in the plane toilets these days.
;)

Like going to the toilet
:rolleyes:
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There's barely enough room in those things for one person to take a piss, I don't know how two people can fit in a lav and do it.

Do you need a co-pilot to join the mile high club or can you fly solo? Maybe that's how people join :D
 
My flight over here went well. I got a lot of enjoyment out of the Air Canada inflight entertainment system. Love the touchscreens in the back of the seat in front of you. lots of entertainment.

I watched movies on my computer. As usual, barely slept. I was able to sleep for about half an hour. It was a rather turbulent flight to Toronto - there wasn't a lot of the flight where you could move freely. The 319 is a small plane and wasn't exactly conducive to sleep. The 320 to St. John's was a lot better and I was able to sleep for maybe an hour on that flight. I don't see how people sleep for long periods on planes. A tiny seat, nowhere to lean your head. I guess that's what Business Class is for.
 
HNL --> EWR is 11 hours each way, so I've had a fair bit of experience.

I generally have an iPod with music and podcasts (try NPR's "Wait Wait, Don't Tell Me" for laughs, or "This American Life") to kill hour chunks of time; Mrs. MTI has a Touch loaded with "West Wing" episodes and music; noise cancelling headphones work well in airplanes; the seatback tray is fine for a Dell Mini 9 running OS X, coupled with an 8GB SD card filled with ripped and converted DVDs.
 
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