Im flying from ist to nrt at 1am and landing at 630pm +1. At what time should I put in tefillin? (When it's light outside?) Also has anyone put on tefillin on a turkish airlines flight not from the usa or israel? It's my first time flying Turkish....
Tallis and tefillin in front seat in coach before flight (I daven vasikin and that's just how it worked out) from Istanbul. No problem. My wife took a pic; thought it was hilarious. Read my full TR about Turkish Airlines in this thread. It's a great airline and Istanbul was more like Miami than what you might imagine it to be.
As far as what time to put on tefillin, as I said, I usually daven vasikin, which makes it pretty simple: daven when you see the sun. In any case, you certainly are allowed to make a bracha once you can see the sun (actually, well before that at misheyakir). Here is a tool to approximate zmanim for air travel:
http://www.chaitables.com/chai_air_eng.php?look=20150810I would try to daven as early as possible since time can move pretty quickly. For your trip, depending on when you go and whether daylight savings is in effect, you could be talking about a sunrise of about 3:20am (departure point time) and Sof zman krias shema of about 5:18am. Basically, don't cut anything till the last (or, in this case, even the first) minute. Sunrise is the easiest thing to determine if you're in the air above the clouds.
BTW, I don't think the 6:30 landing time is a true +1 since you're leaving at 1am.
