chromate - I feel as you wrt BEagle's post, just for different reasons! I loathe the supercilious attitude implicit in his post, it never, ever, seems to occur to his ilk that there are those of us who have spent a working life in aviation WITHOUT feeling we were one of the "...poor people commuting to their mind-numbingly boring 9 - 5 drudgery".
I had 22 years in the RAF, followed by another 20 in the airlines, never wishing to be "...rotting along at 420KIAS...", I thoroughly enjoyed my job in the field of Flight Simulator maintenance. Whilst I can understand the enjoyment he, and others, feel/felt, it does NOT automatically follow that work satisfaction is not to be found elsewhere, and the notion that we are somehow lesser beings because of it I find arrogant, demeaning and downright offensive.
However, I don't suppose my objection will weigh at all in the balance of the mind of one so lofty in ambition and achievement.
Kind regards,
TheNightOwl.
