Originally Posted by
MPN11
I had that ambition, but short-sighted! And then ended up failing Flying Grading with the FAA as a putative Helo pilot despite my PPL In retrospect, especially reading this Forum and others, there was no way I was going to cut it in any pilot role. At least I was a competent ATCO and senior officer (IMHO!).
The Met Office gained a weather guesser as a result of two slight problems:
Almost into Dartmouth until a very late discovery of slight green/blue colour blindness, almost into aircraft industry with a sandwich apprentice/ university place until the narrowest of fails at Pure [or was it Applied?] maths A level.
Next job bus conductor on a 5B bright red double decker, Brighton and Hove Omnibus Company.
Looked good as "previous occupation" on CV. But I might have been a retired admiral, just think.