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Old 26th October 2014 | 13:11
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Genghis the Engineer
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I'm sure Cap.B you appreciate that as described your qualifications in both aerospace engineering and flying are, relatively speaking, entry level. Nonetheless, they're still significant. I suspect however that they also include minimal training in flight testing, otherwise you'd have mentioned that.

My suggestion is that you look towards professional engineering jobs that may make use of your flying knowledge and possibly create opportunities to aviate related to that from time to time.

The first is to look towards a design engineering job in a glider or light aircraft manufacturer.

The second is to look at possible entry level jobs in Flight Test Engineering.


Quite a few people who have taken one of these two routes have ended up flying as light / microlight / glider test pilots. Probably none of them however have ended up doing that as their main job, as such jobs really don't exist. This actually means that the people doing "little aeroplane" testing are often extremely well qualified and the job gets done very well.

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