What - no replies from self-employed Glenfiddich testers or wet tee-shirt quality assurance checkers?

Grammar school student taking GCSEs in 8 or 9 months! :mad: :(

tKF

But it's the Summer hols at the moment, which means forget about crap like school!

I would suggest several reasons why IT people are commonly found in the UK flying scene.

They make/made loadsamoney, and you definitely need that to fly in the UK.

For most people working in IT in the UK, although they made loadsamoney, their medium/long term career paths were not good. Airline pilots have a very very secure career in comparison, and well paid too (though the way they bitch and moan you would not believe them :)). Commercial flying would be a definite draw for long term career stability, to be exploited by the more sensible IT folk who could see the IT downturn ahead of time. IMO, it will be down for some time to come.

(I was hired by a PLC to manage a tech startup in the UK a couple of years ago. I could not believe how much I had to pay a web-developer, with no real education or skills. I ended up paying him more than I paid myself or other key employees (though we had equity :D :D ). I am sure the web-developer is now flipping hamburgers, which is a shame because he was a nice guy. He always had to have the latest £300 phone or PDA, I am sure lots of IT guys from the late 90's are regretting spending all their windfall money on fancy cars and flying lessons.)

Paradoxically, flying a plane will be one of the last jobs to be taken over by computers. Paradoxically because it would be one of the easiest jobs to replace! Airbus IT programmers will be replaced by their own software before you could persuade passengers to get on an Airbus flown by their software itself. A shame, as it will cost lives.

All IMO of course ;)

Mergers and Acquisitions, and the administration of a Venture Capital fund. Not really IT, but I do buy and sell the odd IT company from time to time, does that count?

Stunt man in Blue movies.................
Okay Okay I'm actually an Electrickery Engineer gone over to the dark side ... Sales, Marketing, Waffle and Twaddle.
Right handed.

CC

Keef, will you be bringing your professor friend to Sywell? (Along with a plentiful supply of emergency tea and biscuits of course, 'just in case' :D )

Atco, and part time lorry driver fro a 'blue chip' UK department store.
One earns more money than the other, but the other is a damn sight less stressful and gets me more cups of tea from infinately more civilised customers.:D

Don't think I have a profession but get paid for sitting on the boards of publishing and media businesses (including PILOT magazine) and work in strategy and corporate development. Also manage a web and photographic team for PILOT mag.

How many here are being entirely truthful with theor profession. I note one example where the individual is being a bit economical with the truth but I promise not to tell!

Not a lot now, i was in I.T. but just got laid off at the end of last week (Not sacked :eek: )

Anyone know of any openings!!!

You'll have to work it out from the name!

Right handed for most things (work included) but left handed on the golf course.

CYA at Sywell.

FF - you wouldn't mean me?

Err - I drive tractors and diggers and work very hard. Okay so I also make soap!!

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Stik

aircraft ground handler,refuler,firefighter,ag radio oprator,grass cutter,flight planing officer , and i mend the clubs pc aswell :D
oh and not forgeting dogs body :p

Cusco - you never told me you play golf! I'd have stayed at a safe distance ;)

AerBabe - he was here all afternoon, while we did strange wondrous and musical things to his laptop. This was a 3 cuppa and six bikkie afternoon, but we succeeded! :)

But I don't know if I'd dare bring him to Sywell. He's great fun but extremely intense - he might find a rare orchid on the runway and get it closed.

Cusco:

Should we Speculate on your trade or do you paint hallways through the letterbox? :rolleyes:

I'm right handed and do lots of different things.

Rgds
CB

I though I was the only one until I saw Ghengis!

Aircraft engineer for a very large national airline!!

(Although I have built a few computers for friends.......)

Consultancy to the upstream oil & gas industry on the Geoscience side.

I help identify and produce the liquid stuff that keeps us all from falling out of the sky! (and gets us there in the first place)

Qualified mechanical engineer but spent most of my working life as a financial analyst/controller in the automotive industry.

Now retired, work for Essex Gliding Club, BGA occasionally, Royal Aero Club a bit, GAAC rather more, FAI somewhat, unpaid.

Right-handed, used to prefer thermalling to the left but now little preference.

Seems I'm an odd one out, I'm a flying Granny, so I just go flying a lot.:D :D

Ex Air Traffic Controller. Got into software development for ATC systems many years ago (definitely not NERC!), then ATC Research and Development, investigation into Human Machine Interfaces, and now busy with ATC Safety regulation. Can't get IT out of my system though. :)

Marine engineer with well known oil company working onboard tankers on a 4-month on, 4-month off rota. Plenty of time to fly when I'm home.