Don't read books about airplanes while on an airplane.
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I will use some discretion when loading movies on my iPad for travel viewing (for example, while I love horror movies I wouldn't dream of watching one with excessive gore when people are sitting close enough to see it), but I'll be damned if I restrict my reading material in order to avoid someone making a stupid assumption about my potential risk.
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As someone else has already noted, the terrorists have won.
Good point. I'm going to look for an offensive movie to load on my Ipad tonight. Anybody have any recommendations?
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I suggest the recent BBC film United. It has a very horrific scene about the crash at Mnchen-Riem. If you time it right, you may be able to watch the repeated aborted takeoff attempts during takeoff. (Or not, because electronics will be off)
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I'm going to give you a break and assume you were reading FT at work, got up to do something, and an idiot associate of yours with no common sense and less brains decided to sit down at your keyboard and compose this as a prank to get you into trouble.
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While in flight, you might also feel like turning on your iPad or booting up your laptop - to do nothing other than play around with a flight simulator, no less.
XPlane is out and really good if you've got a Mac. There's an iPad version too. If I fly UA again I may buy the app just to play with it on the flight. Think of all the shock and awe one could cause by flying the plane into the ground and remarking "Darn, never could get that right!"
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I'd take an English-Arabic dictionary on, along with a book with a picture of an airplane on the front.
While in flight, you might also feel like turning on your iPad or booting up your laptop - to do nothing other than play around with a flight simulator, no less.
XPlane is out and really good if you've got a Mac. There's an iPad version too. If I fly UA again I may buy the app just to play with it on the flight. Think of all the shock and awe one could cause by flying the plane into the ground and remarking "Darn, never could get that right!"
While in flight, you might also feel like turning on your iPad or booting up your laptop - to do nothing other than play around with a flight simulator, no less.
XPlane is out and really good if you've got a Mac. There's an iPad version too. If I fly UA again I may buy the app just to play with it on the flight. Think of all the shock and awe one could cause by flying the plane into the ground and remarking "Darn, never could get that right!"
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Well okay, but you don't strike me as the kind of guy that's going to kick back in F watching Girls Of Cellblock F on your laptop.
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For glorified soda machines, these folks sure think they have a lot of authority.
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Shame that CO merged with UA. As much as CO pisses me off, UA is worse.
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Well, I suppose that's true, but plenty of watch I watch is "R" rated and, of course, my wife an I enjoy foreign films and have seen many an excellent movie about life in Middle Eastern countries. I feel that what I watch on my personal screen (with headphones, of course) is absolutely no one else's business, nor is what I read.
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I've had a few strange looks reading this on a flight.
http://www.amazon.com/Black-Box-Why-.../dp/0760304009
http://www.amazon.com/Black-Box-Why-.../dp/0760304009