Granted, I appreciate that the above route you describe may have been your particular route in to Flight Testing – if that indeed is the area you are working in. But perhaps I should be a little more specific about what information I was hoping for.
Posts by GtE, JimmyTAP and SCaro are what I was after. A brief industrial/educational background if you will. Describing their general route from leaving education, through industrial experience, to their present position in Flight Testing.
Your comment “And if people can't filter the chaff of humour from the evidence of facts, maybe they shouldn't be in Flight Test in the first place”. If that was aimed at me, I question your reasoning as it appears your initial MOT joke was aimed at a particular member on this forum, and thus the context of the joke will only be understood by the parties involved. If the comment was aimed at a particular member, be it myself or anyone else, perhaps a PM might be the best way to do it. If it was a personal attack, I fail to see why you do it publicly.
I’m not a moderator, so all I can do is kindly request that you don’t post more posts of the above ilk in this particular thread, and in turn I won’t have to write any more replies of this nature. It was my intention to start this thread and then leave it to the FTE’s and TP’s to continue it. This is the direction I’d prefer this post to go from here on in.
Cheers,
eP.