View Poll Results: Are you an aviation / aerospace professional?
Yes
137
52.29%
No
69
26.34%
Was an aviation professional, not now
21
8.02%
Not an aviation professional, trying to be
35
13.36%
Voters: 262. This poll is closed
Are you an aviation professional?
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Are you an aviation professional?
I'm curious, of those of us who read / post in the private flying forum, how many of us consider ourselves aerospace professionals.
For want of any definition, may I suggest that if you make enough money out of aviation / aerospace to consider it a significant part of you income, you are a professional - regardless of what job you are doing in that.
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For want of any definition, may I suggest that if you make enough money out of aviation / aerospace to consider it a significant part of you income, you are a professional - regardless of what job you are doing in that.
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Problem is, everybody meets that discription in their own mind - if not anybody elses.
I'm sure we all aspire to the highest possible standards of professionalism, but that is a completely different question.
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I'm sure we all aspire to the highest possible standards of professionalism, but that is a completely different question.
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For want of any definition, may I suggest that if you make enough money out of aviation / aerospace to consider it a significant part of you income, you are a professional - regardless of what job you are doing in that.
) so in that sense it qualifies as a significant part of my income. 
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Still trying to get it right after my first ever pilot's salary hit the bank sometime in 1977.
With a whisper soft thud, rather than a bang...
With a whisper soft thud, rather than a bang...
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With a whisper soft thud, rather than a bang.
Not with a bang but a whimper?
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Much to my surprise, I still am!
I got into the lo-co world, ended up in management, and didn't realise how it was ruining my life!
Almost got out altogether, and then landed an absolutely wonderful (non-airline) job!
Now doing PPL(H) course, and re-discovering what it's all about!
Also flying fixed wing (light and getting back to the jet soon) and beginning to enjoy that again too...
The 'profession' isn't what it used to be, by a long way, but there are still a few high-spots!
I got into the lo-co world, ended up in management, and didn't realise how it was ruining my life!
Almost got out altogether, and then landed an absolutely wonderful (non-airline) job!
Now doing PPL(H) course, and re-discovering what it's all about!
Also flying fixed wing (light and getting back to the jet soon) and beginning to enjoy that again too...
The 'profession' isn't what it used to be, by a long way, but there are still a few high-spots!
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Whirly,
Oo, you naughty girl! I've never spent the last of my salary on a bang, if that's what you mean.......
An' it's the bank manager who whimpers
Oo, you naughty girl! I've never spent the last of my salary on a bang, if that's what you mean.......
An' it's the bank manager who whimpers
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Definition of a pilot?
Too lazy to work, too honest to steal.
I get paid for flying with all mod-cons.
I pay to fly with as little as possible and preferably upside down in an open cockpit biplane hence mym presence on the private forum.
Too lazy to work, too honest to steal.
I get paid for flying with all mod-cons.
I pay to fly with as little as possible and preferably upside down in an open cockpit biplane hence mym presence on the private forum.
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There is no entry for "resting".
I used to make a living out of flying, I hope again in the future to make a living out of flying, but at the moment I make a living in order to fly.
I used to make a living out of flying, I hope again in the future to make a living out of flying, but at the moment I make a living in order to fly.
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Funny innit; many people have referred to flying/pilotting in their answers. There's a lot more to being an aviation professional than heated cockpits and comfy seats you know. 
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Aerbabe,
You're right - I spent many years as a chock. Got bored with it though and got demoted to pilot
But comfy seats? Who's got comfy seats? What sort of aircraft has comfy seats?
You're right - I spent many years as a chock. Got bored with it though and got demoted to pilot
But comfy seats? Who's got comfy seats? What sort of aircraft has comfy seats?
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Comfy seats? What are they? 
Heated cockpits???? I've been sitting in an R22 almost all day, apart from over three hours driving in order to sit in it....and I've got backache and I'm cold.
Heated cockpits???? I've been sitting in an R22 almost all day, apart from over three hours driving in order to sit in it....and I've got backache and I'm cold.
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"...and I've got backache and I'm cold. "
I know a cure for both those things.......
I know a cure for both those things.......