I totally agree. It's not kind of hard physical work but you are paid for 12-14h duty. During this duty you are responsible not only for 50m> $ aircraft but also for 200 pax behind you+there are many decisions to do except how many kgs of extra fuel to take.

Most of the pilots who say it's easy job are totally out of the loop once flying. I have seen pilots watching movies or playing games on a phone as soon as they reach cruising altitude and totally loosing situation awareness what is going on around them. They are doing it as they think their job is easy so what to stress about, autopilot is flying anyway by itself...

jadrolinija,

You comments are ridiculous. Once you become a competent professional in any job, the work does become very straight forward and you are tested when things don't go to plan, but that is the reason you are there, as a trained professional.

​​​​​​​You saying that because someone said the job is straight forward or easy as you put it, doesn't make them out of the loop. You are quite correct, the autopilot does do most of the work, however it takes a degree of skill to be able to use and manipulate the autopilot, and I have seen numerous pilots come unstuck because they are not competent using it, which can become the enemy!

Negan, what are you talking about? If you had any of those things you mentioned as a trained professional you would deal with them, that is why you are tested every 6 months and that is why you are in the seat. And why is keeping fresh and current with your company procedures stressful? That is what you are paid for. If you maintain high professional standards throughout your career it is seldom a problem.

CAT3C AUTOLAND,

Please read my comment again. If you still don't understand it, I will explain it to you.

There is difference between straight forward and "easy job" (as previously mentioned by others).

Of course this is straight forward job, we are flying, doing procedures and using common sense when procedures are not covering scenarios... But for common sense we should have knowledge which requires constant learning. And at the moment you stop learning, you depend on luck and SOP.

And yes, it might be an easy job if you do 10 destinations all the time in LCC, if you have a bit more dynamic environment or flying outside of Europe, I guess you will find it everything except an easy job.

At the end... You have to know how to control yourself and your emotions even if you feel stressed as your emotions affect your collegue next to you who might be less experienced. Calling other people's opinion ridiculous or load of nonsense are not something that we were teached on CRM training. I wonder how would same pilot react if he feels stressed in the flight deck...

I don't need to read your comments again, and your statements don't make a lot of sense.

You stop learning? Really? I don't think so mate, I have been flying 25 years and I am always learning.

Your thought processes and relying on luck/SOP makes no sense. And I have flown outside Europe many times! I have no idea what you are talking about.