fillet, all informations including V1, VR and V2 are calculated by FMC. Pilots are there to feed the infos into the FMCs. That is, at least for newer avionics and I think MOST airliners are equipped with that, including the B747-400s. Vee speeds are effected by weight on board, wind condition, runway slope, flaps setting and isnt really viable if calculated by pilots.
http://www.lissys.demon.co.uk/pug/c10.html

Only take off needs to be taken care by the pilot because it is illegal to engage autopilot until 200 feets off the ground. Provided the suitable equipments are available, planes are autolanded unless of course, if the pilot want to practise a manual landing. Computers handle landings much better than humans, if airport condition is bad, such as low visibility and strong crosswind, autolanding is highly recommended.

Pilots are meant to be flight managers and a fail safe in case the computers gone haywire. They arent going to be replaced any time soon. But well, their workload had been significantly decreased. There arent really much thing to do except setting up computers, checklists, monitoring intruments and writing reports.

This post has been edited by DeathWing: Apr 2 2006, 12:39 AM

Pretty good.
Pilots fly people across the world, you guys make it possible.

All triple share common type rating for pilots.
I dont think it is the same with maintenance engineers right?