Bird On-What a load of non sense.
I did a transistion UG along with several others,with no problems encountered by any of the candidates.
No one to the best of my knowledge has been a "risky" upgrade for EK.Further none are/were paranoid.
Cereberus was spot on in his post.
Bottom line is a "paranoid" FO who is known to EK(3 yrs lets say,6 PPCs etc) with even less time than your esteemed self is a considered and known risk.
A DEC irrespective of PIC/TT is UNKNOWN and recent events demonstrate just that.
Now that is risky,IMHO of course.
Off to the bar.QB