What does a Pilot do inflight?

Question

What do pilots do Inflight of a flight, do the relax abit or what?

Answer 1

to tell you the truth, there's not a h**l of alot to do. we just eat our meal, fill up the paperwork stuff, chit chat, read mags and papers, nap, gen up on the ops manuals, stare out into space, take a walk in the cabin. of course at least one of us is monitoring the aircraft and making the required calls. in a cpdlc environment then we dont even have to make calls and it's just so boring. oh yeah, suduko is getting to be more and more of a favourite pastime in the place of crossword puzzles but for me i just get too fustrated so i'm usually just the stare out into space kind of guy.

Answer 2

Monitor everything, engines, autopilot, fuel burn, weather.

get the next set of enroute charts needed out and folded, communicate with ATC, VOR checks, write up aircraft deficiencies, monitor the mentioned above, make sure all components are operating correctly, check weather enroute and check alternate airport weather, get out instrument approach plates, for you plan of whats coming next ( never let plane take you somewhere your mind didn't get to 20 minutes before ),

Answer 3

ide say ''watch the world go by,fast''

Answer 4

Flight deck crew members have many important duties that continue during flight legs.

The do not do "mile high club" things unless they want to lose their jobs and face criminal charges.  This is serious business.

The autopilot does not control the airplane, but rather supplements pilot supervision.  The crew are constantly on the alert to make sure the autopilot is working right.

Pilots maintain a lookout for other aircraft, verify the aircraft's position and course, supervise the aircraft's systems, keep their records up to date, and rotate the duties of flying the airplane.  They don't goof off.

When everything else is taken care of, they can relax, and usually fall into conversation, very much like what goes on in the car on the way to a meeting.  They talk about the kids, lawn care, fishing, and trading cars.

They don't appreciate the insulting comments about what they must be doing up there.  Like I said, it's serious business.

Answer 5

Depends what kind of plane......commercial pilots sleep......they only wake up to make those stupid announcements to the passengers and crew......well.....it could be true.........

Answer 6

the list is long. But in short. He makes any Course or altitude changes as directed by traffic control. Continuous monitoring of the Auto pilot if it is being used. If there is no Auto pilot he fly the plane and monitors all instruments and there can be a lot of them.

Answer 7

Ever hear of the "Mile High Club"?

Answer 8

a pilot does many things inflight. If he is flying a boeing 747 or something, he can eat his meal while puttig the plane on auto pilot. THe auto-Pilot enables the plane to fly on its own. At anytime a pilot can switch to manually flying the plane. He also makes the seatbelt signs go on and off. He can release the oxygen masks and he can do much more. The point is that he controls the plane. He can do anything.