The Flight Flap has an interesting name for a phone and tablet mount. It’s difficult to understand the relativity of the name until you see the product. More about that in a bit.
This is a product made for holding a phone or tablet while seated as a passenger on a commercial plane. This article documents our hands-on review of the product during a recent flight to Fort Myers.
We reviewed a variety of ways to hold your phone on a flight awhile back. This is one of the best we have seen.
Why a Flight Flap?
We fly out of New Jersey via Newark Liberty Airport. One of the busiest hubs in the United States. Assuming the flight takes off on time, which is rare, your time in the air can be long and boring. Fortunately, we have these things called phones. So download something before you leave or, worst case, hook up to the wireless network on the plane and watch some reruns from the 1990s.
Not a bad idea until realizing how tired your arm gets holding the device on an angle for viewing. After one episode of Friends, my arm is in too much pain to watch the next episode. And forget about balancing it against the seat in front of you as it will slip over and over again.
If only there was a way to stand the phone at an angle on the tray table….
Flight Flap to the Rescue
The Flight Flap Phone and Tablet Holder is a mount used while watching video on your phone or tablet. The product is a flat pliable aluminum product sandwiched between a foam material. It weighs next to nothing.
The way this works is you store it in a carry-on. Take it out and bend it once around the middle then bend it again in the opposite direction about a quarter of the way down. Place the phone or tablet on the smaller fold and simply rest it on your unfolded tray table in front of you.
It stays in an upright angled position sufficient for watching a movie for a long period of time without getting your arms tired. Unlike other solutions that clip to the seat tray, this rests right on the seat tray. Just fold it down like you’re getting ready for a meal, and rest it on the flat table.
This could be used for a small tablet as well as a phone. I wouldn’t take it much larger than that. It’s likely to become top heavy with larger tablets such an iPad. So let’s say nothing larger than an Apple iPad Mini.
Recommendation
We give the Flight Flap a thumbs up for holding your phone or small tablet on a commercial flight. The Flight Flap can be used anywhere there’s a flat surface. Think about places like a picnic table or a coffee table. In fact, the photo that accompanies this article is a picnic table because we forgot to take a photo of this while on the plane!