[madaxe_again]

Yes, but you don't need to sit there with your hands on the yoke, feet on the pedals, wired to the nines waiting for disaster to strike. I used to take a book with me for longer flights (when you're sat alone in a plane for hours flying over cloud things get tedious), as short of having a wing fall off there isn't all that much that can go very suddenly wrong - and most of the "very suddenly wrong" situations will kill you regardless. Keep one eye on instruments, mutter intermittent obscenities at the oil pressure gauge - but mostly relax.