Passing time on a plane

[mechana2015]

I have a flight to poland this summer... its estimated at 12 to 16 hours, so I'm planning on drawing, taking pictures (assuming window seats), reading books, sleeping, doing stuff on my laptop, reading comic books, writing my comic, eating, playing gameboy maybe, and anything and everything I can think of in the next few months that I can fit in a single carry on...

[dragonshimmer]

Eh one question how can one drug oneself to sleep?

Lots and lots of Dramamine

[Doubleshadow]

Thank you all. Great ideas.

Sleep. That's what I did. Sleep.

If you can get your hands on a laptop and a bunch of movies, that would be my first choice for entertainment. Oh! I know! Borrow all three of the extended Lord of the Rings films from someone. That right there should have you covered for about any flight.

Now there's an idea, I haven't seen the LOTR yet.

I've recently picked up two activities to kill travelling time: Knitting and sudoku while playing Mp3s. I've been ridiculed for the former but it works for me.

My roomate crochet's on the plane to pass the time! She said people always wonder how she got it past security.


Let me see...

Don't own an iPod.
Don't own an MP3 player.
Don't own a Laptop.
Don't own a DVD player of any kind.
Don't own any gaming systems except the PS2 I play once very six months when I am home.
Reading severly exacerbates my already infamous motion sickness. I'll even get motion sickness when I'm driving my own car.

I do own a CD player, but I have had it for about eight years now, I think, and the headphone port doesn't work right and it will skip if you or anyone within 50 ft. of you sneezes.

Maybe I can snag my brothers iPod since he will be outdoing Air Force training during that time, and maybe I can write some letters if that doesn't make me sick.

It looks like I'll be full of dramamine and benadryl the whole way!

[Raiden no Kishi]

I've recently picked up two activities to kill travelling time: Knitting and sudoku while playing Mp3s. I've been ridiculed for the former but it works for me.

My mom knits. It's cool. You should learn how to knit steel wire into a bulletproof vest like Wild Wild West. That rhymed. w00t.

I suggest . . .

iPod or other music player
Laptop with games [Doukutsu Monogatari FTW]
Portable gaming device [Nintendo DS FTW]
Drawing
Writing [laptops are your friend here]
Buy a box of Mike and Ikes. Seriously. Or Swedish Fish. Eat slowly and enjoy them.
Read.
Watch anime.
Think up characters to draw.

That should keep you busy.

.rai//

[TurkishMonky]

here's what the people in the missions trip did when we went on a flight to brazil (most require more then 1 person though):

1. if kids are nearby, do a (relatively quiet) puppet show. most people enjoyed it more then they did the screaming children beforehand.

2. if you know sign language, get seats several rows apart and have a silent conversation. if not, throw wadded up paper notes back and forth once the rest of the plane goes to sleep.

3. try to see how many movies you can watch at once by looking over your seat.

4. Cards are fun

5. try and compete on how many refils you can get before the plane ride is done. seriosly, some members were able to get probably twice as much as anyone else on the plane (note: this usually is accompanied by frequent trips to the restroom)

6. if you get a bad pilot, raise your hands in the air like you are riding a roller coaster every time he dips. this can be exaggerated by side to side sways as well. works best when you have a full row.

7. Collect barf bags, and fake using all of them.

8. Try to learn another language by listening to the foriegn language stations on the built in radio thingy.

9. Laugh at the cheesy foriegn movies played on the screens.

10. construct sculpture from plastic silverware and tape.

11. play dress up. (aka, i got on the plane as a normal person, i got off as a wilderness explorer, and went through a phase as a cowboy)

12. Sing! (The plane is usually loud enough to drown it out anyway)

13. Collect free stuff. Quite handy later on!

- others, not all from personal experience since we didn't bring laptops or videogames:

14. In my experience, reading is difficult on some flights, as is writing or drawing. movies, music and video games are your best bet. (but make sure that you get GOOD headphones - noise cancelling. In some planes it's impossible to hear anything otherwise.)

15. If you must watch movies, watch movies about hijacked airplanes and plane crashes and airport mistakes - that kind of thing.