{"id":2142,"date":"2019-04-24T10:01:57","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T17:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/?p=2142"},"modified":"2020-01-19T13:50:42","modified_gmt":"2020-01-19T20:50:42","slug":"your-%e2%80%8b%e2%80%8bjob-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/24\/your-%e2%80%8b%e2%80%8bjob-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Your \u200b\u200bjob is"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cIf you want to fly as [traditional pilots] say they do, then go fly gliders, become test pilots, for all I care go<\/g> to the moon. But flying for the airlines is not supposed to be an adventure. From takeoff to landing, the autopilots handle the controls. This is routine. In a Boeing as much as an Airbus. And they make better work of it than any pilot can. You\u2019re not supposed to be the blue-eyed hero here. Your job is to make decisions, to stay awake, and to know which buttons to push and when. Your job is to manage the systems.\u201d<\/p>

~ Bernard Ziegler<\/a>, Airbus senior vice president of engineering, and former fighter and test pilot. Pictured here at first flight of the A320. Quote from 2009 book Fly by Wire: The Geese, the Glide, the Miracle on the Hudson<\/em><\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cIf you want to fly as [traditional pilots] say they do, then go fly gliders, become test pilots, for all I care go to the moon. But flying for the airlines is not supposed to be an adventure. From takeoff to landing, the autopilots handle the controls. This is routine. In a Boeing as much as an Airbus. And they make better work of it than any pilot can. You\u2019re not supposed to be the blue-eyed hero here. Your job is to make decisions, to stay awake, and to know which buttons to push and when. Your job is to … Continue reading Your \u200b\u200bjob is<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[105,74,166,96,141],"class_list":["post-2142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","tag-airbus","tag-automation","tag-autopilot","tag-glider","tag-test-flying"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2144,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142\/revisions\/2144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}