Well I'm waiting!
What to do while waiting for Fleet Carrier Jump?
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be more organised? I tend to request the jump 10 minutes before I expect to be there. or just meet it when it gets there 
Laughs in ship transfer timer.
Play CQC, read the news, complain on the forums...plenty of things to do 
I go ahead of the carrier and collect materials from High Grade Emissions.
I go ahead of the carrier and collect materials from High Grade Emissions.
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Jump into a long-range DBX and hang around the arrival point as you'll arrive well before it does?
If within the Bubble (or Colonia): book the jump, then take a ship to the destination and do whatever you were going to do.
A few days ago, I had a Carrier that needed refuelling, so I took my T9 to a station that sold tritium, and booked the jump to the panet the station orbited. After loading the T9, I launched and went to the Carrier-arrival POI to watch it arrive.
A pirate Anaconda jumped in. I quickly checked the Carrier menu and saw that it would arrive in 1 minute. I then spent that minute trying to evade the Anaconda and stay near the arrival point while spraying chaff and dropping heatsinks. With no shields and about 68% hull, the Carrier arrived just in front of me (I nearly rammed it), and the pirate said "I know when I'm outmatched" and fled.
So there's gameplay to be had.
A few days ago, I had a Carrier that needed refuelling, so I took my T9 to a station that sold tritium, and booked the jump to the panet the station orbited. After loading the T9, I launched and went to the Carrier-arrival POI to watch it arrive.
A pirate Anaconda jumped in. I quickly checked the Carrier menu and saw that it would arrive in 1 minute. I then spent that minute trying to evade the Anaconda and stay near the arrival point while spraying chaff and dropping heatsinks. With no shields and about 68% hull, the Carrier arrived just in front of me (I nearly rammed it), and the pirate said "I know when I'm outmatched" and fled.
So there's gameplay to be had.
Never thought about jumping ahead of an FC, thanks everyone
Doing the chores and stuff...
Go to the pub.
Yup.
A long range DBX is rarely more than five or six jumps from anywhere in the Bubble. You can be ‘taking care of business’ by the time your Carrier has arrived. Stack those assassination missions, line up a load of cargo missions or just dump some exploration data and bang out any available donation jobbies to give you a bump in influence/rep whilst you wait.
15 minutes goes quickly.
I play chess on my pc. When I receive the message "carrier jump complete" I don't remember why I wanted to jump.Watch Netflix? Cook a meal? Play a different game?
This ^
I do this, but just like real life I usually end up being late. If I have to sit through the whole timer it feels like forever, but if I try to do anything and make it to the carrier it feels super rushed. I always underestimate how long it takes to do something simple like leave a planet and traverse a system to the carrier.