Originally Posted by SkyHigh

In a jetliner you are along for the ride. Whenever presented with a challenge your job is to regurgitate procedures, information and tasks then load it all into the computer or flight director. The closer you can come to acting like an automaton the better.

To complicate matters you have to run everything through a co-worker voicing every thought and intention and often motivating them to preform the task for you since your hands are resting upon the autopilot driven yoke.

Very little independent thought is required just manual driven decisions and procedures. True pilot skill is secondary to ones ability to follow the manual and become a cog in the system.

In training one gets the opportunity to do some real hand flying but on the line that stuff goes away.


SKyHigh