I hate flying with a passion and despite trying to get cured, the feeling of dread when the airplane takes off and the engines go quiet never quite goes away. It is illogical and I understand how safe flying is, but for people like me (and there are many of us) the feeling is awful.
On the way to Tenerife last week the old feelings started to come back and I found myself feeling quite jittery after an hour in the air. My children were happy, my wife was happy and so I sat there trying to hide my fear from my family. Eventually the iPhone came out and I managed to immerse myself in a film for 90 minutes and then a few games of WordPop! It just about did the trick and most of the rest of the flight passed by without incident.
Removing fear involves not thinking about the reason you have the fear and so for those precious few hours the humble smartphone helped me a great deal. I rarely go anywhere without my smartphone and will never fly again without one. It is the best distraction I can think of in situations like that.
I’m with you all the way on this one, Shaun. Flying? No thanks.
The only thing is that companies, like Ryanair for example, won’t let you use your phone in flight mode. So then how smart is your smart phone!
It kinda bothered me, since I like to travel light, which means ebooks for me!
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I love flying – it means I’m going somewhere exciting!
I took two years out of teaching to be cabin crew, I really enjoyed it!
Actually i was on a Ryanair flight recently with the new inflight use your mobile service. I fired it up but couldn’t get a signal. Not that I would have actually used any services, but I was curious.
I love having some of my own films on a long flight, and the odd game on my smartphone. I always take a good book too though, good for take off and landing phases!
I flew with them earlier this month (Ryanair that is) and on the seat in front of me it clearly stated no phones not even in flight mode. They didn’t offer any such service. Sounds like a mixed bag future being able to chat on flights. Does that also mean Internet using your data plan?
I never leave home without my two smartphones. I want to reach the world at every moment of my life.