As we approach the season of peace and goodwill to all men I can't help but think that you have been a little hard on Life As A Journey. 'Life..etc' is clearly very disappointed at not being selected and it shows, he was, after all, trying to pass on for the benefit of others pointers that might make them more successful than he was.
I appreciate that quite a bit of Dragonairs type of flying can be very demanding and the selection criteria are necessarily high but I think you could have been a bit more generous to a fellow professional pilot who does, after all, fly aircraft and not, as you suggest, a desk.
BlueEagle - Moderator.