Originally Posted by Organfreak
was your remark sarcastic, or serious?
Very very serious !
Normaly your eyes come to the variometer
(VSI) (in french variomètre) every two seconds great maximum. Not only to put your eyes on it, but to correct your altitude
and your speed
, that you scan in the same frequency, and as well as your heading
. When you have seen any of these three informations, you come back to look and correct your attitude
(pitch and roll). You have also to look outside
with your other eyes (!) and to crosscheck the other pilot
in the crew, to look the other instruments
, manage the warnings, cautions, cabincrew
, hijackers
, fire
, doc. etc.