Beagle, thank you for your comprehensive reply, the relevant bits have been noted and will be utilised. I must point out however that your 'pickiness' and attention to minutae has not extended to the content of my posting. Perhaps you would like to read it again and, in the full glare of this forum, explain where, in the text you saw me refer to myself as a 'Q'FI, an 'A'FI or any other such abbreviation. Neither did I betray my source of training or current employ, be it civilian or military.I feel that you have hijacked the thread of my enquiry for some hidden agenda.
I was merely sitting at my PC (that, in general parlance is an abbreviation for Personal Computer) and thought I would get a quick answer from 'the chaps' at PPRUNE. As I have stated, the relevant bits of your reply are useful, and I thank you for them, but both your opening line in your first reply and the reply of 'rollingcircle' exposed an unhealthy, archaic prejudice that saddens and embarrasses many of us and really is to be pitied. Incidentally, some former military pilots display a similar disposition to yourselves when they arrive, cap-in-hand, on civvie street at airlines like my own. Line training, CRM requirements and a good dose of reality usually puts pay their problem, failing that there is the old fire-axe! 'Adolescent C150'...indeed, can you perhaps enlighten me as to the 'official' abbreviation for 'anally retentive crab?'