Originally Posted by No Mate!
You have a pretty much guaranteed prospect of not becoming a test pilot unfortunately, your chances would be a little better if you joined the air force of course, and greatly succeeded, even then you would still have very little chance. Sorry mate that’s the way it goes I’m afraid.
A little over-pessimistic I think.
There will always be a need for flight testers, but there has never been a need for a lot of them. So, were heavily against all of us who made it into the industry - but we still got there.
Clearly Americans have a slight advantage, because of a much larger industry, but there are still people test-flying, or working their way up, in virtually every country in the world.
G