Bored in Cruise...

I fly like 11 hours a day too, but we have to stop for gas every 3.5 hours or so...I don't get the "on guard" comment.
 
Jfk-Pilot said:
3 Hours in the the aerial survey/mapping world is child's play. Try flying over the same spot for 6 hours straight, land for fuel, take off and do it again for 6 hours. Thank god for my ipod. :)
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I don't even have an iPod....or an ADF to even listen to some horrible country station
 
On long flights (which we hardly have on the CR2 at XJT) I do whichever of the following I feel like doing
1. Talk to the other person
2. Review company manuals/Do revisions
3. Read magazines, book
4. Admire the outside scenery while thinking of a master-plan to escape the regional rat race asap
 
Really I just make sure I keep my instrument scan going...non stop...with borg like dedication. Now I do know an FO who carries a lot of ebook loaded on his cell phone that he reads in cruise. I have also seen others with newspapers, mags, jep revisions, and short cat naps.

Not me. no sir. Just scan the instruments and read the release or other flight related material.
 
Read that day's USA Today that you got from the hotel.

Gossip/banter with the Captain.

Look out the window and try to guess cities you fly over without using the MFD as a cheat.

Finally, break out the Ipad and read/study whatever you have on there.
 
Pod casts on my phone, free and, like uncontrolled airspace and the flying pilot podcast. generally entertaining.
 
pretty sure they cant ding you without any visual proof. Give the guy a break. It's not like he posted a picture of himself doing something.
 
FlySooner9 said:
pretty sure they cant ding you without any visual proof. Give the guy a break. It's not like he posted a picture of himself doing something.
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It wouldn't be too difficult really. I'm not saying I hope he gets caught. But posting something like that on a website like this is bringing unneeded risk upon yourself. Its really not uncommon for reading material to be stashed away somewhere on a lot of flight decks. Wouldn't be exactly difficult to go on a witch hunt.
 
I wouldn't worry too much about it. Pretty easy to defend against something like that in a disciplinary hearing. Not that I would suggest that it's a good idea to talk about it in writing, but he shouldn't be scared to death that he posted it, either.

As far as what to do, I "hear" that people do these things quite frequently:

- Play games on the iPad or iPhone
- Read a book/magazine or the iPad version
- Watch movies on a portable DVD player or iPad
- Do revisions
- Study for the next checkride or recurrent ground school
- Read the contract
- Read the USAToday (or NY Times if you can read at a reading level above the 4th grade)
- Gossip
 
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