I try not to tell, I feel comes over as showing off. Actually get a big kick when someone who has known you for years finds out, and looks at you with differently.
The problem is when the cat is out of the bag (ie friends and family who use it as a conversation piece). That’s it. I can’t stop, and quickly become bore of the year.
Being modest about your skill can backfire. I took a female colleague up once. Didn’t tell her what sort of flying I did. I think she thought we were going up in something big, because when we passed this line of 172s and PA28s at the airfield, she said, “Glad we’re not flying in one of those, those things are dangerous”.
“Oh dear” I thought.
When she saw the battered rental Warrior, she clammed right up, and hardly said a word throughout the flight. I only realised how terrified she was in the air, as she held tightly onto her seat every time the plane rocked a little. She practically kissed the ground when we got down, and vowed never to go up again.