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Get up early then, lying down your spine relaxes and you get taller, throughout the day gravity takes over and you shrink 
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As strange as it sounds - take a rucksack full of bricks (or something else heavy) and wear it for as long as possible prior to being measured - it supposedly compresses your spine slightly. Apparently it works! Good Luck!
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I did it the other way round Scotty. I applied to FAA as pilot and was 'persuaded' to add observer to my application form. Duly passed both pilot and observer aptitude testing and offered observer. I did call their bluff and turned down observer on the understanding that my name would be put forward again as pilot and observer (wouldn't let me remove observer from application) but that there was a risk I could be offered neither.
After a few weeks, a brown envelope arrived through the post advising that I had been offered observer again.
In the meantime I had applied to RAF and was offered pilot by them so no contest really.
Moral of the story - if you 100% know you will be unhappy as an observer, don't do it. Stick to your guns and tell them it's pilot or nothing.
Good luck whichever way you decide to go.
After a few weeks, a brown envelope arrived through the post advising that I had been offered observer again.
In the meantime I had applied to RAF and was offered pilot by them so no contest really.
Moral of the story - if you 100% know you will be unhappy as an observer, don't do it. Stick to your guns and tell them it's pilot or nothing.
Good luck whichever way you decide to go.
