How well do you sleep on planes?

[Princess Fiona]

So I’m still the sole plane sleeper! Crazy. I wonder if being insomniac makes you more likely to be an FF or vice versa

Nope I’m also a great sleeper on planes.

Record is I think 10 hours on QF9 a few years back. But I don’t have a problem sleeping in J/F.
I recently upgraded my eye mask and that has made my sleep even better.

 

[Flashback]

Nope I’m also a great sleeper on planes.

Record is I think 10 hours on QF9 a few years back. But I don’t have a problem sleeping in J/F.
I recently upgraded my eye mask and that has made my sleep even better.

I think I managed pushback to (nearly) landing on QR ADL-DOH, can't complain about that. I was sick, though.

 

[Cynicor]

Nope I’m also a great sleeper on planes.

Record is I think 10 hours on QF9 a few years back. But I don’t have a problem sleeping in J/F.
I recently upgraded my eye mask and that has made my sleep even better.

I wonder if the profession has anything to do with it, as we are the only 2 sleepers in the whole thread! Sleep anytime you can get it, who knows when your next chance will be.

 

[drron]

I tend to have more micosleeps but occasionally can get an hour or 2 since fully retiring.
I once slept right through an RJ flight BKK - AMM. Last memory looking at the terminal as we took off and next memory was when the Captain woke me up saying final approach to Amman. But I was dog tired had worked until we left for the airport for the flight to BKK and couldn't sleep in the 2 hour transit.

 

[Forg]

Just be careful, not being able to sleep on 'planes can be catching.

My wife used to be able to park herself in her economy seat & be asleep sometimes even before push-back, sleepily wave-off the FA when they tried to wake her for a meal, then be awoken by the jostling/noise as the result of everyone starting to get up & grab their bags etc. And repeat the same feat on the 2nd leg of the journey.
Now she's almost as bad as I am at sleeping, and apparently it's my fault & she caught it off me.
Like how crazy people on buses used to only talk to me, now they talk to her as well - that's also catching.
Also she's kinda 30 years older than when we met, and I'm told that's something I've caused too.

 

[Seat0B]

I wonder if the profession has anything to do with it, as we are the only 2 sleepers in the whole thread! Sleep anytime you can get it, who knows when your next chance will be.

Nah I also said I sleep pretty well on a J flight. But maybe the profession is relevant. I assume you are both doctors. But in the military we also learnt to sleep at any opportunity because as you say, who knows when the next chance will come along. Same with eating!

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

Just zonk out, that is how...
When the engine starts, let that lead you into the trance, ohmmmmm...
Even if you dont look at the emergency briefing, they cant force you to.
I zonked out once, from the start of the plane engines at PER to half way to ADL.
No drugs involved either.

 

[straitman]

Forty years in the front of aircraft and I taught myself not to sleep. It took me a long time to retrain myself that I could sleep in flight. Then some years ago we were on a QF A380 in J to Singapore and I finally went to sleep. A little while later the captain (fairly well known) came by and woke me up for a chat. We know each other as he was a student when I was instructing in the RAAF. (Not JB)
After landing in SIN I got to go to the coughpit and shut down a few systems and of course to have a chat.

 

[StayGoldPonyboy]

Nope I’m also a great sleeper on planes.

Record is I think 10 hours on QF9 a few years back. But I don’t have a problem sleeping in J/F.
I recently upgraded my eye mask and that has made my sleep even better.

@Princess Fiona which eye mask did you go for? I have been using a silk Peter Alexander one ( but it has seen better days) combined with an oversized hoodie pulled right down.

I have seen a few people with enormous eye masks that seemingly cover their ears as well.

 

[Princess Fiona]

@Princess Fiona which eye mask did you go for? I have been using a silk Peter Alexander one ( but it has seen better days) combined with an oversized hoodie pulled right down.

I have seen a few people with enormous eye masks that seemingly cover their ears as well.

I use this one
Dore and rose
It definitely covers the ears.

 

[StayGoldPonyboy]

I use this one
Dore and rose
It definitely covers the ears.

Thanks that looks perfect!

 

[eliananelson]

Personally, I find it challenging to get a good night's sleep on a plane. Because the noise, limited space and discomfort in it makes it difficult for me to relax and get quality sleep.

 

[VPS]

Personally, I find it challenging to get a good night's sleep on a plane. Because the noise, limited space and discomfort in it makes it difficult for me to relax and get quality sleep.

Welcome to AFF

 

[Bayside Flyer]

Fits and starts is my experience