What do pilots do when flying in the air?

I once heard a famous joke in the aviation circle that after the autopilot is more advanced, there is no need for human pilots. It will be fun to put three monkeys in the cockpit. One is driving, one is in the co-pilot, and the other is watching the first two to keep them still. Lele is enough.

Although the autopilot has been developed, the pilot does not drink tea, read newspapers, chat or talk to the flight attendants about his life ideals in the cockpit as you think. After hard training, pilots fly from small planes to jet planes, which is not what they do.

After boarding the plane, the crew members have their own division of labor, such as cockpit instruments, route information, entry and exit procedures, weather conditions and so on. In the completely manual take-off and landing phase (which is also a dangerous phase), the captain and the co-pilot are all absorbed. Many short-haul routes have short flight time, and pilots often have to prepare to land immediately after completing the take-off process, and they can't rest for a moment. For long-haul routes, pilots can relax a little after climbing to cruising altitude and the autopilot starts to work, and sometimes take a rest to ensure energy. The duty team is not idle, and it is necessary to monitor all kinds of flight data at any time, such as engine parameters, hydraulic pressure, fuel quantity, etc. To deal with sudden problems, such as automatic driving devices under ventilation or sudden meteorological conditions.

It is also a task for pilots to keep in touch with the ground during cruising. Long-distance flights have to pass through different flight control zones, and the handover and route adjustment of each control zone need to be completed by pilots.

Of course, it is obviously unrealistic for you to say that the pilot just kept silent during the whole flight. It is normal to chat when everything is normal. And the flight attendants will come to the cockpit every once in a while to have a look-please note that this is not to say mountains, but to ensure that the flight attendants are all right.

One minute on stage, ten years off stage. The precise training in the early stage made the pilots have such excellent operations and the aerospace industry of the motherland was so prosperous.