What do you do during long haul flights?
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We disconnect the monitors above the door and hook them up to our notebooks. My whole collection of Seka's best porn was digitillized and now I can usually get about 4 hours out of the battery. Mind you, the best place for the monitor is right in front of the engine gauges, that way we both have the same angle of view...other than that, for longer flights we have to tape over the fuel gauges so that the zeros don't flash too much and the youngest FA on the gen dec has to come over and join us in a game of spin the bottle.
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For amusement one dark and long night, many moons ago and for no apparent reason, I tried this little trick on my FO, just to pass the time you understand! Even now I don't know what made me think of it.
Pitch black outside, no moon, the lights all dimmed, the movies all finished and no pole, (this was on a Boeing) when the FO went for a leak. (This in the days long before calling any of the CC to hold his hand btw) I dragged my black plastic rain poncho out of my Nav bag (tropical destination and I'm no idiot), dimmed the lights even further and covered myself in the poncho. By squeezing myself as far to the left of the seat as possible and sliding down, I disappeared in the gloom. A few moments later he returned to the cockpit, paused in the doorway and returned to the cabin. I learned later that he went to the back galley and asked the cabin crew if they had seen the Captain come out of the cockpit. They of course, said no. Minutes later both the FO and the No 1 came to the cockpit, looked briefly inside and my dear young FO said to her, "What the **** do we do now?" She replied something to the effect of making a PA so I decided the joke had run its course. When I threw the poncho aside and reared up out of the seat, the FO made an unpleasant remark, a more unpleasant smell and never forgave me, even until this day!
It did manage to pass about ten minutes of a long and dreary night and got everyone's adrenalin pumping for a while so not an entirely pointless excercise I feel. Ah, happy days eh?
Now I rely on The Economist and Sodoku, once all the movies have been watched that is.
Pitch black outside, no moon, the lights all dimmed, the movies all finished and no pole, (this was on a Boeing) when the FO went for a leak. (This in the days long before calling any of the CC to hold his hand btw) I dragged my black plastic rain poncho out of my Nav bag (tropical destination and I'm no idiot), dimmed the lights even further and covered myself in the poncho. By squeezing myself as far to the left of the seat as possible and sliding down, I disappeared in the gloom. A few moments later he returned to the cockpit, paused in the doorway and returned to the cabin. I learned later that he went to the back galley and asked the cabin crew if they had seen the Captain come out of the cockpit. They of course, said no. Minutes later both the FO and the No 1 came to the cockpit, looked briefly inside and my dear young FO said to her, "What the **** do we do now?" She replied something to the effect of making a PA so I decided the joke had run its course. When I threw the poncho aside and reared up out of the seat, the FO made an unpleasant remark, a more unpleasant smell and never forgave me, even until this day!
It did manage to pass about ten minutes of a long and dreary night and got everyone's adrenalin pumping for a while so not an entirely pointless excercise I feel. Ah, happy days eh?
Now I rely on The Economist and Sodoku, once all the movies have been watched that is.
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In the old Belfast days we used to get a bit of roof-panelling down from the roof above the galley, spread it across the (rather large) centre console and then have a four for bridge.
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We play the "Pull a CB" game. You stand next to the CB panel and spin around 10 times (with your eyes closed) then pull the first CB you can find. If the A/P disconnects, the guy in the other seat has to drink one finger. If the displays go dark, two fingers. If the cabin goes dark (known as "screamer"), three fingers. So much fun, we usually forget to watch the movies.
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Oh sheesh Permafrost, the year's only 1 day old and that's got to be the best one for 2007. You've got me laughing so much that I now have the cameltoe2006 syndrome 
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Regards,
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I thought what I did during my pc flight sim long haul flight's were unrealistic - take-off, lnav,vnav then movies, mow lawns, wash cars, gym. Or take off at night, hit the a/p, then go to bed with my regular pee-stop in the middle of the night the time to climb to a higher flight level.
Hehehe.
Movies on the nav display, porn, saucy little minxes other wise known as F/A's pole dancing for you.
Bloody hell, do these airlines exist here in Australia? Because I wanna fly on one!
Didn't see one mention of the once great relaxing time passer.....the humble old book. To outdated now eh?
Hehehe.
Movies on the nav display, porn, saucy little minxes other wise known as F/A's pole dancing for you.
Bloody hell, do these airlines exist here in Australia? Because I wanna fly on one!
Didn't see one mention of the once great relaxing time passer.....the humble old book. To outdated now eh?
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So looking forward to the new Airbus coming in to the fleet. All have been ordered with the XBox 360 option. As soon as assigned FL is reached the sidesticks become the controllers for the game machine and the screens all convert to game display mode. Hooks over the windscreen so that we can use the SLF blankets to block out the distracting light. Not sure if the multi-player live option was ordered so that the people at ATC can play along with us. Mortal Combat III should be good for killing off a few hours.
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Cruise relaxation
On our 345:s doing 15 hour sectors we of course have all available options for the Xbox and the new PS3. As soon as you turn the window screen heating off, the flightdeck windows enter 3D holographic mode in 32 bit color with a 220 degree viewing angle for the ultimate gaming experience. And since the whole fleet is Wifi connected via satellite all the crews can participate in an enroute online tournament of Doom. Unfortunately for the guys resting in the bunk, who also are connected they can only join the game through their 32 inch HD LCD screens.
Wonder what the A380 will be like...
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Wonder what the A380 will be like...
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hehehehe! you made my day guys.
I'm realising that in our accounts department, we can really do some of those things, but is all a hole different thing. None of our CEO's is in a hurry to know how much money have we lost this year...
Regards to all!
I'm realising that in our accounts department, we can really do some of those things, but is all a hole different thing. None of our CEO's is in a hurry to know how much money have we lost this year...
Regards to all!
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The 'PILOT RESPONSE' challenge is good.
If there has been no pilot interaction (i.e. Updating the heading bug or making a radio call) with the aircraft for about half an hour an EICAS 'Advisory' message appears. This is closely followed by an 'Alert' and finally by a 'Warning' accompanied by the relaxing tones of the Master Caution.
I haven't really mastered the game yet because it takes about 30 minutes to test each variable, but I can tell you that transmitting on the radio will stop the caution but simply retuning it won't. Likewise the 'LGHT OVRD' switch cancels it but adjusting the 'DOME' light has no effect.
I'm sure all the actions that cancel the warnings are written in the Boeing Owner's Manual somewhere, but these long-haul flights are such a bore that it gives me something to do whilst on HF.
If there has been no pilot interaction (i.e. Updating the heading bug or making a radio call) with the aircraft for about half an hour an EICAS 'Advisory' message appears. This is closely followed by an 'Alert' and finally by a 'Warning' accompanied by the relaxing tones of the Master Caution.
I haven't really mastered the game yet because it takes about 30 minutes to test each variable, but I can tell you that transmitting on the radio will stop the caution but simply retuning it won't. Likewise the 'LGHT OVRD' switch cancels it but adjusting the 'DOME' light has no effect.
I'm sure all the actions that cancel the warnings are written in the Boeing Owner's Manual somewhere, but these long-haul flights are such a bore that it gives me something to do whilst on HF.
Last edited by DEXY; 3rd Jan 2007 at 10:22. Reason: Poor Grammar.