Fte
flaretoland
Good luck with your search for an FTE post.
Your thread however made me wonder what the professionals out there think about FTE's. Do you think that an FTE needs to attend formal courses such as those offered by ETPS, to become an "FTE"? We generally expect "tp's" to have attended such a school - does the community think that an FTE is really just an "FTO" (flight test observer), unless he/she's attended ETPS, etc? I've got a PhD, worked in rotary-wing flight test (RAE), continue to support flight test programmes (autogyro work), but there's no way I'd call myself an FTE...
Philosophical point, as much as anything.