Propjet88. I responded to your PM. On re-reading my original post I probably did not express myself very well.
I did not object to your thread
"Airline Pilot - Trade or Profession".
What concerned me was that it would attract that small minority, particularly amongst airline pilots, with big watches, big wallets and an ego to match, plus the young turks that wear their eppaulettes and wings to Maccas for a burger, who think the world revolves around them. By definition, commercial flying in all it's forms, is probably a professional vocation, in the same way aircraft maintenance and air traffic control is also a professional vocation.
When you commenced the thread, out of curiosity I checked the Dictionary:
Profession:- a vocation requiring knowledge of some department of learning or science:
- any vocation or business:
- the body of persons engaged in an occupation or calling:
Trade:- any occupation pursued as a business or livelihood:
- some line of skilled manual or mechanical work; craft:
- people engaged in a particular line of business:
Your choice!
DG&P Reporting Points Airline and RPT issues in Australia, enZed and the Pacific is effectively our "front page". It is the appropriate forum for breaking aviation news and particularly airline news and
credible newsworthy rumours. We don't want the front page forum bogged down with non news worthy issues.
DG&P General Aviation & Questions is the "inside pages" for GA matters plus all the non news questions and general interest items, whether airline or GA and the "general natter".
Your thread was by nature, a question, not a current news item.
...I hold in distain the human lemmings in our industry who substitute rumours for truth with no regard for the consequences of their actions.
I'd certainly agree with that!
