As I said earlier, you guys make it look too easy. The times I've visited a cockpit (as I sit in the back) all I've seen is a couple of apparently bored pilots filling out paperwork and trying to change altitude to get better winds. The autopilot is doing the flying, the INS is doing the navigating, the autothrottle is auto throttling and so on.
Little did I know until I read this thread that this was all a carefully staged illusion to bolster the travelling public's sense of wellbeing.
I didn't realise that underneath the light and casual banter about the size of the new young FA's **ts, two steely eyed professionals were engaged in a knife edge balancing act to get us to LHR in one peice... Or something like that anyway.
Maybe you need to "jazz up" the cockpit act so that the bean counters think they are getting value for money. .
