{"id":4516,"date":"2020-04-07T16:27:50","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T14:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bullesbygundula.com\/?p=4516"},"modified":"2020-04-08T15:50:54","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T13:50:54","slug":"seven-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bullesbygundula.com\/en\/seven-minutes\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Anyone who knows me knows that I tend to strike up conversations with people easily. So it\u2019s not surprising that I made the acquaintance of the person sitting next to me in a plane and found out that he was a pilot for Kenya Airways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was amazed when he told me that flying a 747 is actually quite boring because the amount of time that the pilot flies the plane manually is only about seven minutes. Three minutes on take-off and about the same for landing. The rest of the time it\u2019s on autopilot!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s incredible when you think that as a passenger, it takes you seven hours to get from Paris to New York and the pilot only controls the plane for exceptional events and emergencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It reminds me of a story about Abraham Lincoln: if he had an hour to cut a tree, he would spend fifty minutes sharpening the blade of his axe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pilots spend a huge amount of time preparing their flights for departure, working on their reflexes and training, so they are fully informed and prepared for the moment when the lives of so many people are entrusted to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Picasso once replied to a woman enraged at the exorbitant price of the sketch that he had drawn on a paper napkin in three minutes: \u201cIt\u2019s not the sketch that you\u2019re paying for madam; it\u2019s my 30 years of experience!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What about you? What\u2019s your experience worth?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Anyone who knows me knows that I tend to strike up conversations with people easily. So it\u2019s not surprising that I made the acquaintance of the person sitting next to me in a plane and found out that he was a pilot for Kenya Airways. I was amazed when he told me that flying a 747 is actually quite boring because the amount of time that the pilot flies the plane manually is only about seven minutes. Three minutes on take-off and about the same for landing. The rest of the time it\u2019s on autopilot! It\u2019s incredible when you think that as a passenger, it takes you seven hours to get from Paris to New York and the pilot only controls the plane for exceptional events and emergencies. It reminds me of a story about Abraham Lincoln: if he had an hour to cut a tree, he would spend fifty minutes sharpening the blade of his axe. Pilots spend a huge amount of time preparing their flights for departure, working on their reflexes and training, so they are fully informed and prepared for the moment when the lives of so many people are entrusted to them. Picasso once replied to a woman enraged at the exorbitant price of the sketch that he had drawn on a paper napkin in three minutes: \u201cIt\u2019s not the sketch that you\u2019re paying for madam; it\u2019s my 30 years of experience!\u201d What about you? What\u2019s your experience worth?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2289],"tags":[2505,2430,2503,2506,2504],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n