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Internet Speed on a airplane
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Is this info for high speed internet speeds on flights true even though it is old ?
https://www.highspeedinternet.com/resources/best-in-flight-wifi
https://www.highspeedinternet.com/resources/best-in-flight-wifi
Often enough something like streaming isn't supported on those type of connections (at least it hasn't been in the past).
Depends on the kind of internet. The old ground based Gogo stuff was terribly slow, useful for little more than text and email. Certainly not any video content. The satellite tech is much better - wouldn’t call it fast by any means, but at least more usable, and I’ve been able to watch YouTube, etc with it.
Happy to know that you still do that - so many folks leave their shades closed for the entire flight! I’ve been ‘looking out the widow at the world’ professionally for about 17 years, and still love to do it when riding around in the back.
Happy to know that you still do that - so many folks leave their shades closed for the entire flight! I’ve been ‘looking out the widow at the world’ professionally for about 17 years, and still love to do it when riding around in the back.
This - what can I say - lack of curiosity, interest, awe, about our world - leaves me mystified. I could spend (and often do) entire flights gazing out windows; that, and studying the screen - the only screen I will ever watch on a flight - that depicts the flight path.
I love to do it, and far prefer it to anything else when flying - I loathe movies on flights; occasionally, there will be a compelling conversation with a fellow passenger, but, for me, gazing out that window (and glancing at the screen that depicts the flight path) is still a source of wonder for me, a marvel that I will never cease to enjoy.
Actually, to me, it is still a marvel that we have "manned flight" at all; I'm very mindful that it is just under 120 years ago since the Wright brothers tested their wildly revolutionary and transformative craft at Kitty Hawk.
I thrill to studying the landscape of countries and regions from thousands of feet (or metres) above ground, - it is instructive and thought-provoking to see how physical features change (as does the fact and extent of cultivation) and I still react with stunned amazement and stupefied delight - and awed gratitude - that I have had the privilege of working and travelling across three continents (none of them America, a continent I have never visited) and seeing stuff - with my own eyes - that I used to study with absorbed fascination in an atlas, or, while watching a documentary on TV.
The Horn of Africa, Lake Caspian, the Pamir and Tien Shan mountains, - even the striking - striking, because quite distinctive - coast of the Netherlands ("gosh", exclaimed the person who sat beside me, the first time I flew over the coast of the Netherlands on a flight from Russia, in the early 1990s, "it looks just like it does in an atlas", yes, it does), these are amazing from the air; and, flying from some airports in the less developed parts of central Asia - or, indeed, parts of Africa (and, back in the 1990s, the former Soviet Union and Central and Eastern Europe) - in planes that were no longer seen in western Europe - like scenes from the 1950s - were also amazing experiences.
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Philistines. What kind of uncouth barbarian would book a window seat and not take advantage of the view? I always want a window seat so I can see outside, even if we're above the clouds and I all I can see is white. If I get stuck in a middle seat or an aisle seat, I sleep or read.Happy to know that you still do that - so many folks leave their shades closed for the entire flight! I’ve been ‘looking out the widow at the world’ professionally for about 17 years, and still love to do it when riding around in the back.
Amen to that; and that is exactly what I do, as well.
And agree re philistines and uncouth barbarians; that view is extraordinary, and still a source of awestruck wonder to me.
The answer to that is personal, but what I think you are asking is not "how old" I am, but rather, what generation I come from, or what generation I feel myself coming from.
In truth, I am middle aged, but - even when I was young - I felt as though I was middle aged.
Anyway, while I dislike movies (yes, even on the ground, too much of my life is spent viewing screens, most movies bore me to tears, and besides, some of what you can see from the sky - are once offs, something you may never see again, whereas you can always see a movie), and loathe mobile phones (yes, they are useful, but I detest them), I love to travel, to explore, to experience, to sense the thrill and adventure and novelty of seeing (and visiting) new countries, and marvelling at the world as it unfolds below me.
No computer game will ever replace the pleasure - and sensation - and joy, of seeing something extraordinary for yourself. And, very often, it makes you think (rather than what can seem to me to be mindlessly consuming mass media at times) - think about the world, and think about your preconceptions, and can make you challenge some preconceptions.
Guy that lives next to me is a pilot. Yes he's still working but not often! Your routine sounds very much like his, thats according to his professional assessment of a day at his office.
I think he has his head in the clouds.