I'm sure this has been asked before but i am curious what others do during medium or long haul flights at real time.  I watch episodes of Air Crash Investigation on YouTube but I have seen just about every episode made including the Seconds from Disaster Series.  I'm kind of hoping someone else may post what they are doing which might also interest me  for awhile.  I don't use time acceleration as it's forbidden by my VA. I have also watched most of the WWII in color series as well as many episodes of Discovery channel "Wings" and "Sea Wings"  What am I missing?

Filling OFP first, Premier league, Formula 1, cooking, cleaning, studying... You can even try to become member of virtual mile high club.

 

EDIT: Hitting refresh button at avsim forums tab every 30 sec like I do now.

 

 

You can even try to become member of virtual mile high club.

 

My virtual Stewardess (wife) brings a parachute and bails at 3500 ft. I watch a movie or hockey over my shoulder and try to keep the cats from learning what keys to step on on the keyboard that would mess the flight up the most. We have three. They all usually show up while I'm on final. They come in from all directions like a joint strike force. One in front of the monitor, one on the keyboard and one on my lap - in my face.

 

A lot of times I just wonder if I haven't something better to do and why I'm not doing that instead!

 

Happy Holidays,

Mel

 

My dog is kinda uninterested in flying - usually sleeping under my chair.

I watch a movie or hockey over my shoulder

One advantage over the RW pilot is that I have a rear view mirror for watching the TV behind me without dislocating my neck. It works well so long as there are no subtitles involved.

Browse the internet, watch youtube clips, Photoshop, talk to friends on Facebook.  One of the advantages of a surround setup is not just necessarily playing in surround but running the sim maximized on one monitor and doing a variety of other things on the other two monitors. 

I have a laptop beside me during most flights so i use that. I'm flying right now (short haul though, i'm not into medium or long haul at the minute). Skype is a good way of passing the time.

I try to read aircraft manuals.... Like the J41 one which is 3 inches thick 

I read books.

Usually read books, listen to various podcasts, music, check email and stuff on the iPad.

Enabling XPoi and reading wikipedia articles about places I'm currently flying over.

Interesting, is XPoi limited to some specific area or does it work globally?

 

Cheers,

surfing the net for a new VA 

I consider medium to long haul flights in Flight Simulator a waste of time. I just do short haul or use time compression at cruise altitude or slew my way to 150 miles short of the arrivals airport.

 

5 to 10 hours cruising in Flight Sim is time in my life I can never take back so I don't see the point, so I don't do it. Real world pilots get paid for that so that is the difference right there, and there is two of them working together instead of one guy sitting at a PC.

5 to 10 hours cruising in Flight Sim is time in my life I can never take back so I don't see the point, so I don't do it. Real world pilots get paid for that so that is the difference right there, and there is two of them working together instead of one guy sitting at a PC.

...and they get to party with lovely flight attendants at an exotic foreign destination for a couple of days when they arrive.