Cat, I wish I had the amount of bars that could cause such a reflection, thats assuming the pay scale is attached to it! I have emailed you for further chat.
I brought up the 'boot' comment because if I said that to half my students, they would do just that. As always the student listens explicitely to the phrases you don't mean and ignore the ones that you do! Oh well, I was and still am a student of aviation, so can't really complain. Don't think we will ever learn!