Land sharp on day one.

Who it is for

• You have a flight booked across four or more time zones and a first day you cannot afford to lose: a meeting, a wedding, the first day of the holiday you paid for.
• You have used the calculator and want the rest: what to do on nights two, three and four, what to do at 3 am, and what to do on the way home.
• You want to print it, tick the boxes and pack it. Or read it on a tablet on the plane.

The problem, and what is inside for it

• Landing day goes fine and night two falls apart. The countdown pages are built around nights two to four, which is where most trips are lost, not arrival day.
• You do not know how many hours to shift, or which way, once the date line is involved. The date line page and the route tables give the hours, the direction and the page number for the common routes, in both seasons.
• You do not have three spare evenings to pre-shift. Every plan page has a no-prep version on the back, and the quickstart covers flying in the next 24 hours.
• Awake at 3 am in the hotel with nothing to tell you what to do. Eight rescue cards, indexed by situation, readable in the dark.
• The return trip is worse than the trip out and nobody plans it. A whole chapter for the flight home, with the one rule the trip out did not need.
• You have to perform on landing day. The Land and Perform page: the plane, the morning, the room, and what to do after.

How it is built

Every time on every page is computed by the calculator's engine, not written. The plan library is generated from the same code that runs the free calculator, and a test fails if the two ever disagree. The engine itself:

What you get

The core is the plan library and the countdown. Everything else is a bonus, and each one is there for one moment of the trip.

• The plan library: 21 pages, 2 to 11 hours east and west plus a twelve-hour page, every number from the same engine as the calculator.
• Find your page: a route index with page numbers, and a date line page for Asia, Australia and the Pacific.
• The countdown: Day -3 to Day +3 plus the flight, one page a day, fill-in boxes for your numbers and a line for what you noticed.
• Your trip, filled in: two pages keyed to the calculator's fields, outbound and return.
• A before-and-after score so you can see whether it worked.

The bonuses

1. Bonus 1The 3 am Rescue Cards. For night two. Eight cards indexed by situation, readable in the dark.
2. Bonus 2The Flight Home chapter. For the trip nobody plans, with the one rule the trip out did not need.
3. Bonus 3Land and Perform. For the meeting or the wedding on landing day: the plane, the morning, the room, and what to do after.
4. Bonus 4Book the Right Flight, with the red-eye and multi-leg worksheet. For the trip you have not booked yet, when two flights cost about the same.
5. Bonus 5The Suitcase card. The whole method on one page, for the trip after this one.
6. Bonus 6The phone edition. Free when it ships, to everyone who has bought, like every later edition.

US Letter and A4 editions, to print or read on a tablet.

Five honest questions

I can use the free calculator. Why pay?

You can, and it gives the correct times. It does not tell you what to do on the second and third nights, what to do at 3 am, how to handle a connection, or how to plan the way home. That is the book. If your trip is under three nights, do not buy it: the book itself says stay on home time.

Is this just a generic ebook?

It is built from the calculator's engine, so every time on every page is computed, not written. The text is short, there is a route index with page numbers, and the sample pages above show exactly what you get.

I fly across the date line. Does it cover that?

Yes. The date line page explains why no shift is more than twelve hours and gives a table of the common routes to Asia, Australia and the Pacific, with the hours, direction and page number for both seasons.

Does it cover melatonin?

Timing only. It says rules differ by country and tells you to ask a pharmacist or doctor. No doses, no brands, no links.

What if it does not work for me?

Some people take longer than the plan says, and the book says so. If it did not help, email hello@sleeptools.co within 30 days for a refund. No form, no questions.